> FYI, you can also see what they have done in mpi4py to by-pass this problem.
Could you elaborate on this or give me some pointer to other resources? > I would actually highly recommend you to use mpi4py rather than implementing > this from scratch your-self ;) I fully agree that it is a bad idea to implement something like mpi4py from scratch. However, I don’t plan to do this and I’m not sure if mpi4py will work for us. This problem initially came up when working on a thin layer around some parallel netcdf functionality to request and compare data from NetCDF (especially CDF-5) files. It is written in C++ due to performance reasons. Additionally, I’m not sure if there is any up-to-date python library for parallel netcdf that could help here. As you can see, we don’t need full blown MPI features in python, and so I’m not really sure if mpi4py can help us. Please correct me if I’m wrong! Best, Joel
