It appears that I was wrong about not being able to start MPI
processes dynamically. The MPI-2 standard does include a procedure
MPI_Comm_spawn which can be used to create MPI processes from a master
process. In fact, one of the main motivations for MPI-2 was to break
free from the static proces
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Mark Fredrickson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do believe that one can start a new Erlang VM and add it to the cloud at
> any time, but I get the impression this is actually rare. With n cores, why
> not just start a VM on each core to begin with?
A year or two a
On May 20, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Ivan Raikov wrote:
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Alaric Snell-Pym <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Well, as far as I can tell, MPI seems to have a fairly static view of
the world as having a fixed number of processes in it upon startup,
so the following (in Erlang) comes
