> There is nothing preventing you from creating your own shared memory > segment > for use by your application. This does not impact the MPI implementation. > You need to make sure you take care of all the issues associated with > multiple procs/threads accessing the same cache lines, which can cause > quite > a bit of performance degradation, if not managed. > > Rich >
How can we create "our own shared memory segment?" Do you mean Linux System calls? I see shmget routine, for example, but it is a C routine. Do we have to write a fortran interface to use it? Tahir.
