Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: Francois TOUCHARD <touchard@cppm.in2p3.fr>
Subject: MPI and X events
Organization: CPP Marseille
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 17:16:41 +0200
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Hello,

We are evaluating the possibility of using MPI as a message passing mean
in the context of the control of large data acquisition system for 
High Energy Physics. We use LAM because of its ability to dynamically
manage processes but are nevertheless eager to test a MPI-2
implementation.

Most of our applications are interactive (send a command to a system
and wait for answer) and require an user interface handling X11 events.
Sending a message is no problem, but has anyone heard of a function
allowing to wait for a message and deal at the same time with X11 events 
as does XtAppMainLoop ? We use GUI's such as XDesigner to generate our
interfaces and would not like to go too deep in X programming...

Any hint will be very much appreciated !

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