Re: [OMPI users] OMPI vs. network socket communcation

2011-05-02 Thread Terry Dontje
@open-mpi.org Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OMPI vs. network socket communcation On 04/30/2011 08:52 PM, Jack Bryan wrote: Hi, All: What is the relationship between MPI communication and socket communication ? MPI may use socket communications to do communications between two processes.

Re: [OMPI users] OMPI vs. network socket communcation

2011-05-02 Thread Jack Bryan
: Mon, 2 May 2011 08:34:33 -0400 From: terry.don...@oracle.com To: us...@open-mpi.org Subject: Re: [OMPI users] OMPI vs. network socket communcation On 04/30/2011 08:52 PM, Jack Bryan wrote: Hi, All: What is the relationship

Re: [OMPI users] OMPI vs. network socket communcation

2011-05-02 Thread Terry Dontje
On 04/30/2011 08:52 PM, Jack Bryan wrote: Hi, All: What is the relationship between MPI communication and socket communication ? MPI may use socket communications to do communications between two processes. Aside from that they are used for different purposes. Is the network socket program

[OMPI users] OMPI vs. network socket communcation

2011-04-30 Thread Jack Bryan
Hi, All: What is the relationship between MPI communication and socket communication ? Is the network socket programming better than MPI ? I am a newbie of network socket programming. I do not know which one is better for parallel/distributed computing ? I know that network socket is unix-ba