MPI for Ada?

MPI for Ada?

[james buford white]

Does anyone know of any work on an MPI binding
for Ada 95?

---
James B. White, III
white@cis.ohio-state.edu

Re: MPI for Ada?

[Ken Thomas]

james buford white wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of any work on an MPI binding
> for Ada 95?
> 
> ---
> James B. White, III
> white@cis.ohio-state.edu

I have produced a thickish binding for MPI that I intend to release
soon. It is by no means complete. I have implemented the Group and
Communicator management functions and have extended the stream
attributes for communication and broadcast. 

The hardest step is always the most difficult. MPI may be a standard but
the header files "mpi.h" reflect different implementations. The tool 
cbind (Mitch Gart) was used to get a first iteration for a thin binding. 

One milestone was the function MPI_Init(**argc, **argv) that uses
command line parameters. So far the most elegant way to use MPI is
to call a procedure with spec

	AdaProg(C : Communicator) 

from a C-Wrapper.

The binding has been tested on

	Machine		Gnat	MPI
	Sun4(SunOs)	3.09	mpich
	IBM SP2		3.07	vendor
	Meiko CS2	3.07	mpich

Your interest will certainly act as a stimulus for me to do further
work.
-- 
Dr K.S. Thomas
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

Telephone : (+44) 01703 593029
Fax :       (+44) 01703 593903

email: kst@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Re: MPI for Ada?

[Laurent Pautet]

>>>>> "james" == james buford white <white@chicago.cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

    james> Does anyone know of any work on an MPI binding for Ada 95?

If you are interested in message passing and not especially iin MPI,
asynchronous procedures of annex E provide exactly what you are
looking for, and you won't have to write all the low-level procedure
calls.

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-- Laurent