[plt-scheme] MPI Bindings?

From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 12 22:23:14 EDT 2010

Yes.  I wrote an MPI binding back in 1995 for one of the earliest
versions of MzScheme.  Obviously this code has long since disappeared,
but it didn't take long to get it off the ground.  With all the FFI
coolness now available, you should be able to get something going
quickly.

Shriram

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For my distributed & parallel computing coursework I would like to
> write PLT Scheme bindings to OpenMPI. From what I can find, none exist
> already, and I wanted to confirm that with the crowd.
>
> My gut feeling at this point is that by the end of the semester (a few
> weeks) I could get some of the primary MPI-1.2 API calls up and
> running. Since I've never worked with the C FFI before though, I could
> be totally wrong.
>
> Does this sound like a three week task?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Grant Rettke
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