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Octave parallel computing toolbox
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Octave parallel computing toolbox |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:00:49 -0500 |
On 24-Jan-2008, Ganesh Bikshandi wrote:
| Dear Octave Developers/Users,
|
| We have developed a parallel programming library intended for (C or
| F77) + MPI programmers. The library is more productive and offers
| better performance than MPI.
|
| We are planning to have a MATLAB port of the library. But, since
| MATLAB has several parallel programming tools (Mathworks themselves
| ship a Distributed Computing Toolbox) which provide adequate support
| for parallel programming, we are now pondering over porting to OCTAVE
| instead. We want to know the state of the art in OCTAVE parallel
| programming. We need a strong business case for our project. If OCTAVE
| does not have capabilities similar to MATLAB, then poring our library
| to OCTAVE will result in a new product. In this regard, if you can let
| us know the current support for OCTAVE parallel programming and the
| necessity of parallel programming tools in OCTAVE, that will give us a
| clear picture.
It is Octave, not OCTAVE.
What are the license terms for your library How will it be linked
with Octave?
jwe