On Feb 11, 2013, at 3:41 PM, "Beatty, Daniel D CIV NAVAIR, 474300D" <daniel.bea...@navy.mil> wrote:
> The Intel+PPC is one issue. However, even on Intel, there tends to be a > distinction between Intel environments going from Xeon to Core iX > environments. While Objective-C/C/C++ handle this well, the Fortran > compilers have given me a different story over the years. It tends to be > the case that not all of the 64 bit compilations are not the same, > especially with the Fortran compilers. I don't know if there are any Fortran compilers who create OS X universal binaries. > The second issue of the host files has to do with a defunct capability for > example Xgrid. It used to be that various Xgrid sites were reasonable > sources of information with regards to MPI and one could get the recipes to > equip either a cluster or grid environment. Examples included TenGrid > (http:/tengrid.com) , MacResearch ( http://www.macresearch.org), etc. I'm still not sure what you're asking here -- Xgrid is long dead. > I hope that the new amount of data being collected at the open MPI site will > facilitate both the mobile and data center variety of MPI alike. What data collection are you referring to? > The beauty > of mobility is the feature that the Mac, Windows, and potentially iOS, and > Andriod platforms bring to the concept of MPI. The cost is keeping track of > when such devices come and go from such grids. People have experimented with trying to do parallel computing on mobile devices, but power has always been a problem. > I may had a misarticulated question with regards to the marshaling > capabilities of MPI. It may have improved since I last used MPI. I know > that there are standards bodies for MPI itself. Therefore, I will need to > check to see what changes have occurred. MPI has datatypes, but they're not really the same thing as traditional marshaling/dynamic serializing. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
