Hello Everyone,
I'm inquiring to find someone that can answer some multi-part questions about hwloc, OpenMPI and an alternative OS and toolchain. I have a project as part of my PhD work, and it's not a simple, one-part question. For brevity, I am omitting details about the OS and toolchain, other than that neither are supported. If forced to choose between OpenMPI and the OS/toolchain, I am likely to choose the OS/toolchain and pursue other avenues for parallelization. That's part of what I am trying to determine with my inquiry.

To summarize some of the question areas:

1) The OS I am working with does not support MP
2) nor does it support pthreads
3) the hardware is quad-core SoC with an integrated memory controller
4) I'd like to see if it possible to utilize hwloc and shmem to build an asymmetric multi-processing system where only one core has I/O but the other three can run the executable

This is a fairly dedicated system to be used for analyzing ODEs (disease models). The hardware is cheap ($200) and uses very little power (can run off a 12v battery), and the toolchain and OS are all BSD-licensed (and everything will be published under that license).

If someone is available for off-line discussion (to minimize unnecessary traffic to the list), I'd be more than willing to summarize the conversation and contribute it to the online documentation.

Thank you,
tim
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