Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: gdburns@osc.edu (Greg Burns)
Subject: Re: Client-Server Program in MPI?
Organization: Ohio Supercomputer Center
Date: 13 Dec 1996 09:54:24 -0500
Message-ID: <58rqn0$egd@tbag.osc.edu>

In article <58mic9$loi@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> achan@scs.carleton.ca (Albert Chan) writes:
>If it possible to create an MPI program in which the client and server
>start asynchronous and then establish communication dynamically during
>run time?  Or we can only stay with RPC to do that?

This functionality is in the draft MPI-2 standard.  The basic calls
are MPI_Connect() and MPI_Accept().  They are implemented in LAM 6.1.
I would be interested in hearing from the first person to use this
functionality in an actual application.

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Greg Burns				gdburns@osc.edu
Ohio Supercomputer Center		http://www.osc.edu/lam.html

