Ralph, I think there is a lot of interest in MPI over Hadoop. If you are counting votes here's my +1.
mahadev On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > Hi folks > > I'm a lead developer on the Open MPI project, and recently joined the Hadoop > community to help with Hamster. A couple of people have asked me about using > MPI more generally inside MapReduce, and it does indeed seem a good candidate > to use that method of communication. > > It seems to me, though, that a pre-requisite for moving that direction is a > good set of Java MPI bindings. I've checked with the MPI community, and while > there have been a couple of attempts at this, nothing really "adopted" by the > community has been done. > > I have some spare time while I search for a new job, so I thought I might > tackle this over the next few weeks. However, I thought I would assess the > actual level of interest before investing the time - it isn't a trivial thing > to do, but doable if there is interest. > > Thanks > Ralph >
