It was just a tongue-in-cheek jest. The business world also needs grid computing but would hardly use Fortran and C. So, they use Java and C#/.NET
That's why I said "MPI.. is going the way of Fortran." In the business world. Which eventually is going to be a much larger market space than scientific computing. On 6/17/07, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure what you mean by "openmpi and friends are so going the way of > fortran". All MPI implementations that I know (lam-mpi, mpich, openmpi) have > provided, from the very start, API suppor-t for both C and Fortran. In fact > openmpi, itself, is written in C: > > http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.2/downloads/openmpi-1.2.2.tar.bz2 > > Am I missing something here? _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
