Re: OpenMPI vs. Octave 2.9.x

[Paul Kienzle]

On Oct 9, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Javier Fernández wrote:
> Just as a suggestion, a piece of code that would
> make MPITB maintenance a kid's game would be a
> routine for "serializing" Octave datatypes. A routine
> that returned for each (supported-type) variable, a
> pointer to its starting memory location and a size
> counter... Hmm, right, and a description of pointer's
> type. For more complex types, it might return a
> series of type/pointer/counter triplets which would
> allow data reconstruction on the remote side... Hmm,
> right again, this time the first type descriptor
> would implicitly describe remaining types, so only
> the first type descriptor would be required. In other
> words, it would do the work done by MPI_Pack.cc in
> MPITB. The method could be called "serialize()" and
> added to Octave types willing to be supported under MPITB.

Octave already has serialization code for types implemented
in the binary file I/O system.  It might be possible to
modify it to send data over the wire rather than saving it
to a file.