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From: Jeremy Graham Siek Date: September 6, 2006 3:16:06 PM EDT To: Boost mailing list , Boost Announce Subject: [boost] [Review][MPI] Boost.MPI review begins Reply-To: boost@lists.boost.org

Hi All,

The view of the Boost.MPI (for Message Passing Interface) begins today, Sept. 6 and continues through Sept. 15.

Description:

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a standard interface for message passing in high-performance parallel applications. It defines a library interface, available from C, Fortran, and C++, for which there are many MPI implementations. Although there exist C++ bindings for MPI, they offer little functionality over the C bindings. The Boost.MPI library provides an alternative C++ interface to MPI that better supports modern C++ development styles, including complete support for user- defined data types and C++ Standard Library types, arbitrary function objects for colective algorithms, and the use of modern C++ library techniques to maintain maximal efficiency. As an example, one can concatenate the std::strings stored on each processor with a single reduce call and the function object std::plusstd::string. However, if the call to reduce is merely computing the sum of integers, the implementation transforms into the appropriate call to MPI_Reduce. For more information about the design of Boost.MPI, see our design philosophy.

The review tarball is here:

http://www.generic-programming.org/~dgregor/boost.mpi/boost- mpi-20060906.tgz

Online documentation is available here:

http://www.generic-programming.org/~dgregor/boost.mpi/libs/ parallel/doc/html/

PDF documentation is available here:

http://www.generic-programming.org/~dgregor/boost.mpi/mpi.pdf

Review questions ================

Please always explicitly state in your review, whether you think the library should be accepted into Boost.

You might want to comment on the following questions:

- What is your evaluation of the design? - What is your evaluation of the implementation? - What is your evaluation of the documentation? - What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library? - Did you try to use the library? With what compiler? Did you have any problems? - How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick reading? In-depth study? - Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?

Cheers, Jeremy

__________________________________ Jeremy Siek Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Colorado at Boulder

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