Sounds good - I'll get busy on it! Will keep you posted on progress. Thx all
On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Stephen Boesch wrote: > +1, I was looking at using them together just in this past week. but no > bandwidth to work on myself. > > 2011/12/1 Mahadev Konar <[email protected]> > >> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>> >>
