On 18/10/10 23:41, David Abrahams wrote:
Just wanted to call some attention to this article I wrote about Boost.MPI:
http://daveabrahams.com/2010/09/03/whats-so-cool-about-boost-mpi/
I think it might be useful to link that from the Boost.MPI docs, too.
While the library seems nice (it bridges serialization with MPI), I don't really see anything in there that makes me think it's "so cool".
So after reading it, I felt a bit like the question "What's so cool about Boost.MPI?" remained unanswered. I didn't feel that way! I got that what was so cool, is that MPI, while VERY cool in itself is a bit of a
On 10/19/2010 05:59 AM, Mathias Gaunard wrote: pain to use with data structures, and if you change the data structure you have to go through the pain all over again. Then comes Captain Caveman! JK Boost.MPI to the rescue and automates all that, so that 1) you don't have the pain of getting MPI to work with your data structures and 2) you don't have the pain of having someone later change the data structure and everything breaks and someone has to figure out why. Then, to add meta-coolness (aka elegance), it does it in an optimal way. Sick! Patrick