Re: [OMPI users] Connecting multiple applications

2006-03-30 Thread Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
available if you want to go outside of the MPI API, of course (and use the ORTE API). > -Original Message- > From: users-boun...@open-mpi.org > [mailto:users-boun...@open-mpi.org] On Behalf Of John Robinson > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:25 AM > To: r...@lanl.gov; Ope

Re: [OMPI users] Connecting multiple applications

2006-03-30 Thread Ralph Castain
Hi John We haven't built an MPI-layer interface yet to the registry functions. For now, the only means of accessing them is directly through the OpenRTE interface via the option 3 method I described. At some point in the future, it is my understanding that the MPI-layer interface to the regi

Re: [OMPI users] Connecting multiple applications

2006-03-30 Thread John Robinson
Ralph, Thanks for the explanation and the pointers. One further point of clarification (is this right?): MPI provides a "registry" function using publish/lookup. What OpemRTE adds is an event mechanism so that an application does not have to poll for changes to information in the registry, p