Re: [Gomp-discuss] OpenMP: Examples 1

[Lars Segerlund]

 The OdinMP compiler did compile for MPI as one of its targets.

 / Seger.


On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:59:40 -0400
Scott Robert Ladd <address@hidden> wrote:

> Lars Segerlund wrote:
> >  Scott, you are my hero :-) ...  don't give up !
> > 
> >  Excellent, stuff like this is what we need.
> 
> Thanks for the support!
> 
> >  A question though, does it sound reasonable that we should go for support 
> > for both threads & MPI ? This would mainly concearn the lib(s), and perhaps 
> > we have to stay out of trouble during the implementation.
> 
> A tricky question. OpenMP tends to be associated with low-latency 
> parallelism, while MPI and PVM represent various forms of message 
> passing mechanisms. In some cases, people have tried to write mixed MPI 
> and OpenMP programs, where the distributed nodes are multiprocessor 
> systems. One of the ASCI machines (I forget which color) uses 
> multiprocessor nodes connected via a high-speed network.
> 
> I think we should just stick to low-latency parallelism in GOMP; 
> otherwise, I think we're mixing what some people see as apples and oranges.
> 
> ..Scott
> 
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