Hah. I forgot a NOT. I meant to say I was NOT offended. Haha. Whoops. Jay
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Grant Rettke <gret...@acm.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Sorry Grant, I don't understand what you mean. Is it a basic starting >>> point on what? It looks to me like it tries to do the same thing as >>> the OpenMPI package: >>> >>> https://pkg.racket-lang.org/info/openmpi >>> >>> But I'm not sure. Is there something else it does? Is the openmpi >>> package insufficient in some way for you? >> >> Sorry I wasn't very detailed on the overview >> >> A few years ago I wanted to do a proof of concept for how it might >> look to teach MPI using PLT Scheme rather than C (which is generally >> just fine but for most of the students it was an obstacle). Pretty >> sure that you helped me out with the bindings or some other kind soul >> did. >> >> What I ended up building was a basic, full and complete example do a >> kind of hello-world type app with PLT Scheme and MPI that someone >> could run on a cluster to see it all working with helper shell scripts >> and everything. >> >> If the bindings had been complete way back then and my deadline not so >> near then I would have cut over my example. I forgot about the whole >> thing and unearthed it recently, and just wanted to share a full, >> basic, working example. Wasn't my intent to say openmpi isn't good and >> useful. > > Okay, good to know. At for what it's worth, I was trying to imply I > was offended. I just don't actually use openmpi anymore, so I don't > have a sense of how useful it is, since I'm not employing it > regularly. I was vaguely worried, that's all. > > <3 > > Jay > > -- > Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> > Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University > http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay > > "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
