[racket] Some MPI code

Hah. I forgot a NOT. I meant to say I was NOT offended. Haha. Whoops.

Jay

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry Grant, I don't understand what you mean. Is it a basic starting
>>> point on what? It looks to me like it tries to do the same thing as
>>> the OpenMPI package:
>>>
>>> https://pkg.racket-lang.org/info/openmpi
>>>
>>> But I'm not sure. Is there something else it does? Is the openmpi
>>> package insufficient in some way for you?
>>
>> Sorry I wasn't very detailed on the overview
>>
>> A few years ago I wanted to do a proof of concept for how it might
>> look to teach MPI using PLT Scheme rather than C (which is generally
>> just fine but for most of the students it was an obstacle). Pretty
>> sure that you helped me out with the bindings or some other kind soul
>> did.
>>
>> What I ended up building was a basic, full and complete example do a
>> kind of hello-world type app with PLT Scheme and MPI that someone
>> could run on a cluster to see it all working with helper shell scripts
>> and everything.
>>
>> If the bindings had been complete way back then and my deadline not so
>> near then I would have cut over my example. I forgot about the whole
>> thing and unearthed it recently, and just wanted to share a full,
>> basic, working example. Wasn't my intent to say openmpi isn't good and
>> useful.
>
> Okay, good to know. At for what it's worth, I was trying to imply I
> was offended. I just don't actually use openmpi anymore, so I don't
> have a sense of how useful it is, since I'm not employing it
> regularly. I was vaguely worried, that's all.
>
> <3
>
> Jay
>
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> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>
> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93



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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93