Re: Can tomcat serve MPI (parallel) applications?

It has been a lot of years since I worked with MPI, but IIRC one "host" has to be the master (usually called mpirun or mpiexec) that distributes the tasks to the "dependent hosts" and then collects the processed results. If this is true, then using one machine as a dedicated front end makes sense

Re: Can tomcat serve MPI (parallel) applications?

Hello John, as far as I know, all processes are equivalent, although the one with rank 0 is usually used for logging unless each process has to contribute its own logging messages. I am using the openmpi MPI software as basis with business logic written in C and a JNI interface to make it

Re: Can tomcat serve MPI (parallel) applications?

Thanks for your reply, comments below: On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: > What is your goal, your expectation of Tomcat? What these n instances > should do that 1 instance cannot? They are running cpu-intensive calculations on distributed hosts