Re: OpenMPI vs. Octave 2.9.x

[David Bateman]

Michael Creel wrote:
>
>
> David Bateman wrote:
>> Marius Schamschula wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I finally got Octave 2.9.9 to build on my G5 running Mac OS X 10.4.8
>>> (prior versions failed to work with octave-forge).
>>>
>>> I used to build Octave 2.1.x with and w/o lam. I have since switched
>>> to OpenMPI. After my standard build, I just tried building Octave with
>>> OpenMPI. The configure script gives no outward indications of a test
>>> for mpi, nor are the libraries listed at the end of the script, or in
>>> ./configure --help.
>>>
>>> Am I safe to assume that there is no current MPI support?
>>>
>>>
>> In octave itself there isn't MPI support, but you should look at
>>
>> http://atc.ugr.es/javier-bin/mpitb
>>
>> I'm not sure its ported to 2.9.x yet though..
>>
>> D.
>>
>
> I for one have started holding my breath. M.
>
Why not make this as a patch against 2.9.x? John for a long while had
MPI as one of his to do for 3.0 and so I'm sure he'd consider it if it
was ever proposed as a patch..

D.

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