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Ronald Garcia | 7 Sep 2006 19:59
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Fwd: [boost] [Review][MPI] Boost.MPI review begins



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From: Jeremy Graham Siek <jsiek <at> osl.iu.edu>
Date: September 6, 2006 3:16:06 PM EDT
To: Boost mailing list <boost <at> lists.boost.org>, Boost Announce <boost-announce <at> lists.boost.org>
Subject: [boost] [Review][MPI] Boost.MPI review begins

Hi All,

The view of the Boost.MPI (for Message Passing Interface) begins
today, Sept. 6 and continues through Sept. 15.

Description:

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a standard interface for message
passing in high-performance parallel applications. It defines a library
interface, available from C, Fortran, and C++, for which there are many
MPI implementations. Although there exist C++ bindings for MPI, they
offer little functionality over the C bindings. The Boost.MPI library
provides an alternative C++ interface to MPI that better supports
modern C++ development styles, including complete support for user- 
defined
data types and C++ Standard Library types, arbitrary function objects  
for
colective algorithms, and the use of modern C++ library techniques to
maintain maximal efficiency. As an example, one can concatenate the
std::strings stored on each processor with a single reduce call and
the function object std::plus<std::string>. However, if the call to
reduce is merely computing the sum of integers, the implementation
transforms into the appropriate call to MPI_Reduce. For more information
about the design of Boost.MPI, see our design philosophy.

The review tarball is here:

mpi-20060906.tgz

Online documentation is available here:

parallel/doc/html/

PDF documentation is available here:



Review questions
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Please always explicitly state in your review, whether you think the
library should be accepted into Boost.

You might want to comment on the following questions:

- What is your evaluation of the design?
- What is your evaluation of the implementation?
- What is your evaluation of the documentation?
- What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
- Did you try to use the library? With what compiler?
   Did you have any problems?
- How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A
   quick reading? In-depth study?
- Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?

Cheers,
Jeremy

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Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder




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Jeremy Siek | 21 Sep 2006 15:08
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Boost.MPI accepted

It is my pleasure to announce that Boost.MPI has been
accepted as a Boost library. Congratulations to Doug Gregor
and Matthias Troyer on their excellent contribution to Boost!

One particularly nice aspect of Boost.MPI is the way it
leverages the Boost serialization library. So also thanks
to the author of that library, Robert Ramey.
Yeah generic programming and code reuse!

I would also like to thank all of the people that took some
time to review Boost.MPI and participate in the review
discussion: Dean Michael Berris, Robert Ramey, David Abrahams,
Geoffrey Irving, John Fletcher, John Phillips, and Noel Belcourt.

During the review, several suggestions for improvement
were made, which I recommend that the authors take action
on as they prepare Boost.MPI to be included in Boost.

1. Named parameters in the interface
2. Revise introduction to focus more on
   describing what Boost.MPI is, and move
   info about how Boost.MPI is implemented to
   a later section.
3. Document the performance characteristics of
   functions, e.g., Create_vector.
4. A copy-edit pass over the docs to catch typos, etc.
5. Hooks for dispatching between the underlying MPI
   implementation vs. a Boost.MPI provided impl.

Cheers,
Jeremy

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Jeremy Siek <siek <at> cs.colorado.edu>
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~siek/
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder

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Beman Dawes | 30 Sep 2006 14:39
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BoostCon 2007 Call for Proposals

The first annual Boost conference will take place in Aspen, Colorado,
May 14-18, 2007.

BoostCon 2007 is looking for session presenters. We invite you to
propose a session. For details on how to become a presenter, see
www.boost.org/more/BoostCon07_session_call.html

This inaugural Boost conference promises to be the main face-to-face 
venue for all things Boost, from using libraries to writing them, from 
evangelizing Boost to deployment within your organization, from 
infrastructure and process to vision and mission, and from TR1 to TR2. 
Given the range and interests of the participants, the event is going to 
be intense and in-depth.

For more information about the conference, see
www.boost.org/more/BoostCon07.html

--The Organizing Committee

David Abrahams  Beman Dawes     Jeff Garland
Joel de Guzman  Kevlin Henney   Howard Hinnant
Scott Meyers    Eric Niebler    Sean Parent
Rene Rivera     Jeremy Siek     Matthias Troyer
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