RE: [Freepooma-devel] Reviewing thread-safety

[ron hylton]

Richard,

This isn't an answer to your question but it is thread-safety related :-)

In my applications I use Pooma to solve a large number of uncoupled problems 
that are individually too small so far to be worth splitting across 
processors.  In this case I would like to be able to use multiple instances 
of Pooma in independent threads, but this currently doesn't work because of 
the existence of some global data for scheduling and statistics.

One item on my to-do list is to make an "Object Pooma" that wraps the 
currently global data so I can instantiate multiple Pooma's.  This looks 
relatively straightforward to me but I have no experience with OpenMP or MPI 
and I don't know whether these would break if I went down this route.

Does anyone have any views on the feasibility of Object Pooma?

Thanks,
Ron