From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a9bbfb8cd49f1a51 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!193.252.118.146.MISMATCH!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Sender: obry@PASCAL Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Isn't this in favour of Ada?? References: <42d64dde$0$64794$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> <42e0a2a6$0$36943$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> <42e0cd67$0$37532$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> <42E102A9.5060707@mailinator.com> From: Pascal Obry Date: 26 Jul 2005 19:25:54 +0200 Message-ID: Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jul 2005 19:25:56 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.124.251.69 X-Trace: 1122398756 news.wanadoo.fr 1222 82.124.251.69:1506 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3789 Date: 2005-07-26T19:25:56+02:00 List-Id: "Tassilo v. Parseval" writes: > This whole annex is merely a few pages. Compare that with MPI 2.0 which > consists of 370 pages. It defines in great depth all the data-types that > an MPI conformant systems needs to implement and the whole interface. Ada Annex-E says nothing about data type because it supports all the Ada data types described elsewhere. > That makes MPI extremely portable. Agreed. > Maybe. But the mere fact that you can write a small MPI application in > Ada and connect it to an already existing one running elsewhere speaks > in favour of MPI. MPI is huge in that in certain fields it is used > almost exclusively, owing to the fact that its standard is so > comprehensive and non-ambiguous. Agreed too. For interoperability reasons it is certainly good to consider MPI since it is widly used in HPC. But I'm also positive to say that using Ada Distributed Annex is a good alternative to MPI if interoperability is not an issue. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595