MPI-1 even supported MPMD -- SPMD is the most common way to invoke MPI, but it certainly is not necessary.
See Open MPI's man page for mpirun for how to start a series of different executables that all launch in the same MPI_COMM_WORLD. On Apr 15, 2013, at 8:14 AM, John Chludzinski <john.chludzin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just received an e-mail notifying me that MPI-2 supports MPMD. This would > seen to be just what the doctor ordered? > > ---John > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote: > FWIW: some of us are working on a variant of MPI that would indeed support > what you describe - it would support send/recv (i.e., MPI-1), but not > collectives, and so would allow communication between arbitrary programs. > > Not specifically targeting HLA/RTI, though I suppose a wrapper that conformed > to that standard could be created. > > On Apr 15, 2013, at 7:50 AM, John Chludzinski <john.chludzin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > This would be a departure from the SPMD paradigm that seems central to > > MPI's design. Each process would be a completely different program > > (piece of code) and I'm not sure how well that would working using > > MPI? > > > > BTW, MPI is commonly used in the parallel discrete even world for > > communication between LPs (federates in HLA). But these LPs are > > usually the same program. > > > > ---John > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:22 AM, John Chludzinski > > <john.chludzin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is anyone aware of an MPI based HLA/RTI (DoD High Level Architecture > >> (HLA) / Runtime Infrastructure)? > >> > >> ---John > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > us...@open-mpi.org > > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
