[Boost-mpi] Using broadcast with an intercommunicator

2017-02-01 Thread Ed Figura
Hi. I'm trying to use broadcast() with an intercommunicator. This is not working and having looked at the code (1.55) I can see why. Can anyone suggest a workaround (short of raw MPI!)? _ This email has been scanned by the S

Re: [Boost-mpi] Using broadcast with an intercommunicator

2017-02-01 Thread Alain Miniussi
Boost.MPI is just a layer/facade on top of plain MPI, you can retrieve a MPI_Comm from an mpi::communicator and use raw MPI with it. It is also possible, for complex data, to serialize it through de serialization library and then send the archive as an array of bytes. On 01/02/2017 21:02, Ed