There have been various discussions about using threads within FLTK. I'm curious to know whether anyone has gone a stage further and made an application that talks to remote compute servers using MPI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing_interface) or similar technology. It sounds like the sort of thing that some of the people here doing image rendering on processor farms might be doing already.
I came across MPI in a completely different context, and had a bit of a Eureka! moment about using it with an application which is currently not designed to use threading, never mind parallel remote calculation. This would be a demonstrator project for something more complicated. I've never used MPI, so I'd appreciate even minimal feedback before I start to wade through hundreds of pages of documentation. Is it worth investigating FLTK+MPI further, or is it a non-starter? Cheers Duncan _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
