On 9/3/19 2:40 AM, Konrad wrote:
> 
> I have a little technical question though: Can I attach the mpi_communicators 
> that you use in the deal.ii tutorials also somehow to a 
> boost::mpi::communicator?
> 
> https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/doc/html/boost/mpi/communicator.html
> 
> Never tried it but according to the documentation it seems possible.

Yes, boost::mpi is a wrapper around MPI, and so the communicators can be 
converted to each other.

boost::mpi is a nice idea in principle, but it's not particularly well 
designed and few people use it. Some reasons are listed here:
 
https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/questions/3019/boostmpi-or-c-mpi-for-high-performance-scientific-applications

Best
  W.


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