MPI and Octave? Parallel Octave?

[Ian Langmore]

Looking at this website
http://www.aoki.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/octave/index.html
it appears that "Parallel Octave" hasn't been updated since 2003.  Is 
this the case?  What sort of shape is it in?
I have access to a 1500 core SiCortex machine (MIPS architecture) and 
also have a good deal of matlab code written--not to mention experience 
with matlab but not with C/C++.  As matlab will not work with anything 
other than X86 architectures, I'm looking for another solution.  Any 
ideas?  Also, has anyone built octave for this type of machine?

As a side note, I'm considering investing time in SciPy along with MPI
http://mpi4py.scipy.org/
their website has been disabled for a bit--so I'm not sure if it is 
worth my time.  Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Ian