[racket] racket, scheme, and message-passing clusters?

Regarding using MPI,

I've made a proof of concept FFI for OpenMPI. I believe that Grant
Rettke was working on one too, but I didn't see any evidence of it
online.

It is available at:

http://github.com/jeapostrophe/openmpi

I'd like to get it ready for wider use.

It's not ready for PLaneT yet, but you can see an example at:

http://github.com/jeapostrophe/openmpi/blob/master/examples/master_server.rkt

Here's an example output:

~github/openmpi/examples
% mpirun -np 8 racket -t master_server.rkt
[0/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: I am the master
[0/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Processor 1 reporting!
[0/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Processor 2 reporting!
[0/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Processor 3 reporting!
[1/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: I am the servant
[1/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Hello 1...
[2/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: I am the servant
[2/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Hello 2...
[3/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: I am the servant
[3/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Hello 3...
[4/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: I am the servant
[4/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Hello 4...
[5/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: I am the servant
[5/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Hello 5...
[6/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: I am the servant
[6/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Hello 6...
[7/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: I am the servant
[7/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Hello 7...
[0/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Processor 4 reporting!
[0/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Processor 5 reporting!
[0/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Processor 6 reporting!
[0/8 jay-mccarthys-macbook.local]: Received: Processor 7 reporting!

Jay

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:14 AM, chris lanz <lanzcc at potsdam.edu> wrote:
> Thanks to Jay and Robby for their replies.
>
> I honestly don't care what form of message-passing I use, I just don't want to
>
> write my own. My app will eventually run different very large programs (100,000
>
> lines of C-like procedural code) on clustered machines controlled by a head node.
>
> I have to rewrite all my original code in SOMETHING (it's in PASCAL because
>
> that's what I'm virtuosic in and that's what I've been using for 25 years)
> and I
> was preparing to rewrite in C and use MPI, but I've decided it's better to
>
> switch all at once.
>
> If I learn Gambit Scheme (that apparently includes an Erlang link),
>  how far from
> Racket is that?
>
> Or is there a better solution? For instance, should I use Racket (which is my
>
> preference because we might start teaching it here) and assume that by the time
>
> I need it (a few years from now) there will be some intrinsic clustering
>  facilities?
>
> THANKS
>
> CHRIS LANZ
>
> lanzcc at potsdam.edu
>
>
>
>
>
>
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