Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy + MPI for Python

2006-10-14 Thread Lisandro Dalcin
On 10/14/06, Bill Spotz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to second the notion of converging on a single MPI > interface. My parallel project encapsulates most of the inter- > processor communication within higher-level objects because the lower- > level communication patterns can usually

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy + MPI for Python

2006-10-14 Thread Lisandro Dalcin
On 10/13/06, eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Granger wrote: > > keeping mpi4py as a separate project. > > Is there any chance it could be > > hosted at mip4py.scipy.org? > > > Fine from our side... > > eric > Can anybody help setting up mip4py.scipy.org? I really do not have experience wit

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy + MPI for Python

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Baxter
On 10/15/06, A. M. Archibald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, well, any suggestion for a name? pylab is already in use by > matplotlib (for some reason), as is Scientific Python (and numpy, > Numeric and numarray are obviously already confusing). I always thought 'pylab' was an odd name, so I alwa

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy + MPI for Python

2006-10-14 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 10:50:36AM -0600, Charles R Harris wrote: > So, well, any suggestion for a name? pylab is already in use by > matplotlib (for some reason), as is Scientific Python (and numpy, > Numeric and numarray are obviously already confusing). >supernumpy? I th

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy + MPI for Python

2006-10-14 Thread Charles R Harris
On 10/14/06, A. M. Archibald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 14/10/06, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 06:58:45AM -0600, Bill Spotz wrote: I agree. Moreover, being picked for such integration work would helpencourage people to converge on one MPI interface (for exa

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy + MPI for Python

2006-10-14 Thread A. M. Archibald
On 14/10/06, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 06:58:45AM -0600, Bill Spotz wrote: > > I would like to second the notion of converging on a single MPI > > interface. My parallel project encapsulates most of the inter- > > processor communication within higher-leve

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy + MPI for Python

2006-10-14 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 06:58:45AM -0600, Bill Spotz wrote: > I would like to second the notion of converging on a single MPI > interface. My parallel project encapsulates most of the inter- > processor communication within higher-level objects because the lower- > level communication patterns

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy + MPI for Python

2006-10-14 Thread Bill Spotz
On Oct 14, 2006, at 2:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10/13/06, Lisandro Dalcin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This post is surely OT, but I cannot imagine a better place to >> contact >> people about this subject. Please, don't blame me. >> >> Any people here interested in NumPy/SciPy + MPI

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy + MPI for Python

2006-10-14 Thread thamelry
On 10/13/06, Lisandro Dalcin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This post is surely OT, but I cannot imagine a better place to contact > people about this subject. Please, don't blame me. > > Any people here interested in NumPy/SciPy + MPI? I've been working on a Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN) toolk

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy + MPI for Python

2006-10-13 Thread eric
Brian Granger wrote: > Just as a data point. > > I have used mpi4py before and have built it on many systems ranging > from my macbook to NERSC supercomputers. In my opinion it is > currently the best python mpi bindings available. Lisandro has done a > fantastic job with this. Also Fernando and

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-dev] NumPy/SciPy + MPI for Python

2006-10-13 Thread Brian Granger
Just as a data point. I have used mpi4py before and have built it on many systems ranging from my macbook to NERSC supercomputers. In my opinion it is currently the best python mpi bindings available. Lisandro has done a fantastic job with this. Also Fernando and I have worked hard to make sure