By serialization, I mean in the context of data storage and transmission. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization
e.g. in a structure or class, if there is a pointer pointing to some memory outside the structure or class, one has to send the content of the memory besides the structure or class, right? --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Eugene Loh <eugene....@sun.com> wrote: > From: Eugene Loh <eugene....@sun.com> > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] speed up this problem by MPI > To: "Open MPI Users" <us...@open-mpi.org> > Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 11:06 AM > Tim wrote: > > > Sorry, my typo. I meant to say OpenMPI documentation. > > > Okay. "Open (space) MPI" is simply an implementation > of the MPI standard -- e.g., http://www.mpi-forum.org/docs/mpi21-report.pdf . > I imagine an on-line search will turn up a variety of > tutorials and explanations of that standard. But the > standard, itself, is somewhat readable. > > > How to send/recieve and broadcast objects of > self-defined class and of std::vector? If using > MPI_Type_struct, the setup becomes complicated if the class > has various types of data members, and a data member of > another class. > > > I don't really know any C++, but I guess you're looking at > it the right way. That is, use derived MPI data types > and "it's complicated". > > > How to deal with serialization problems? > > > Which serialization problems? You seem to have a > split/join problem. The master starts, at some point > there is parallel computation, then the masters does more > work at the end. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users >
