Viral wrote: > > > I didn't know that Java MPI was that slow. > However let me explain my application. > > The application will be written in C, but there are things such as user > interfaces for managing the cluster, and other programs which will show > realtime data etc. All this is well done by java, and efficiency is not > an issue here. The core programs will be written in C. >
That looks ok, tho visualization is a hard task, too. Do all message passing in C, and feed the visualization stream to java frontend if that's what you want. > Another question I have is, can processes join an MPI cluster ? It seems > that all processes have to call MPI_Init () first, but LAM does seem to have > a way to spawn processes. > I'd stick to MPI 1.x specs and avoid dynamic processes / mem windows etc. When you code on MPI, think that you have a single static process at each node of the cluster. :) Regards, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
