Cl-mpi: MPI bindings for Common Lisp

Cl-mpi: MPI bindings for Common Lisp(code.google.com)

12 points by khandekars 16 years ago | 8 comments

jganetsk 16 years ago |

The kids nowadays don't even know about MPI as a framework for parallel processing. Thank you, MapReduce.

rjurney 16 years ago | |

Is that really a bad thing?

mahmud 16 years ago | | |

Not at all. Programming has become specialized since its inception; there are systems programmers and application programmers. The former creates the tools used by the later.

But, I expect the systems programmers to know not only the ins and outs of the current technologies, but what came before them. The past is full of beautiful architectures that didn't succeed for commercial reasons in their time, but would be perfect candidates to make a comeback in some form in the future. Even if we have to form a vigilante group of hacking do-gooders who will mail architects copies of important texts and papers (a la GvR and SICP ;-)

Needless to say, MPI is not one such "lost beauty", more like a committee designed piece of industry infrastructure. MPI == HPC.

jganetsk 16 years ago | | |

Those of us who don't know history are bound to reinvent it.

JulianMorrison 16 years ago |

Anyone who has used MPI - is it any good? A cursory glance makes it look like slightly gold-plated RPC.

omnipath 16 years ago | |

I've used it for school work, but not for a real paying job. It can be good, but I used MPI raw, which is C based. So there is tons of rope to hang yourself. I just remember that it was a little difficult to have each spun process talk to the main process.