>> therefore, I guess I need to separate the GUI binary from the mpi-processes >> binary and have the GUI process talk to the "master" mpi process (on linux) >> for calc requests. >> >> I was hoping I wouldn't have to write a custom code to do that. >MPI doesn't necessarily mean SPMD -- you can certainly have the GUI call MPI_INIT and then call MPI_COMM_SPAWN to launch a >different executable to do the compute working stuff.
Hi Jeff, I couldn't quite understand this last statement. If the GUI's on windows, and the compute processes are on linux for instance, no MPI communication is possible right. That means, I do need to write custom code to communicate between the GUI process (win) and the mpi master (linux) regards,
