Re: Octave Interpreter

[Stefan Seefeld]

Hi Richard,

On 2014-10-05 13:29, Richard Crozier wrote:
>
>
> On 02/10/14 13:34, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>> I'm honestly not entirely sure I understand the question: What
>> additional support in terms of language support is needed to provide a
>> "distributed Octave" ?
>
> Making 'parfor' loops work with actual parallel pools might be what is
> meant:
>
> http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/distcomp/parfor.html

I see. Still, it seems the frontend (language) changes are only minimal,
while quite a lot needs to be done in terms of backend work to support this.
Could anyone familiar with the Octave internals comment on what  it
would take to support parallel execution (in the sense of multiple
octave instances executing tasks dispatched from a single frontend
session (akin to the architecture described in
http://ipython.scipy.org/talks/0903_siamcse09_ipython_dist_bgranger.pdf,
slides 9-10) ? In other words, what does it take for Octave to support
MPI-style parallelism ?

        Stefan

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