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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Can coThreads be used for message passing architecture?
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:13:46 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070919211346.02e1a947.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ps0e9b1m.fsf_-_@fel.cvut.cz>

Jan Kybic wrote:

> I have had only a quick look at the web page but I did not understand
> whether and how can coThreads be used on a cluster of independent
> computers (Beowulf-style) that are only connected by network (no
> shared memory) for which I normally use MPI (message passing). 

>From the TODO file, it seems that the networker engine is not yet 
complete which means the answer to your question is no (at least
for now).

I can however report that on a single machine with multiple cores,
message passing between CoThreads using the Event module is an absolute
pleasure to use.

Erik
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-19 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-17 16:31 [ANN] coThreads 0.10 Zheng Li
2007-09-17 16:48 ` Zheng Li
2007-09-17 17:39   ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-09-17 17:51     ` Zheng Li
2007-09-17 21:33       ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-09-17 22:37         ` Zheng Li
2007-09-17 23:26           ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-09-18  0:16             ` Zheng Li
2007-09-18  0:53   ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-18  1:25     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-18  4:29     ` skaller
2007-09-19 10:11   ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-19 10:58     ` Can coThreads be used for message passing architecture? Jan Kybic
2007-09-19 11:13       ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
2007-09-19 12:59         ` Zheng Li
2007-09-20  4:16         ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-09-20  6:11           ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-20  9:06             ` Zheng Li
2007-09-20  8:49           ` Zheng Li
2007-09-19 19:13   ` [Caml-list] Re: [ANN] coThreads 0.10 Vu Ngoc San
2007-09-19 20:10     ` Zheng Li
2007-09-20  0:50       ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-09-20  4:29         ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-20  7:11           ` skaller
2007-09-20  7:52             ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-20  8:37               ` Zheng Li
2007-09-20 10:43                 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-09-20 10:44                   ` Matthew Hannigan
2007-09-20 15:02                     ` skaller
2007-09-20 15:07                       ` Christophe Raffalli
2007-09-20 15:51                         ` skaller
2007-09-20 16:26                       ` Florian Weimer
2007-09-20 17:37                         ` Vincent Aravantinos
2007-09-21 16:33                       ` readline license (was: [ANN] coThreads 0.10) Xavier Leroy
2007-09-21 17:11                         ` [Caml-list] " Matthew William Cox
2007-09-21 18:05                         ` skaller
2007-09-21 21:51                           ` [Caml-list] Re: readline license Markus E L
2007-09-21 22:16                             ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-09-22  0:49                           ` [Caml-list] Re: readline license (was: [ANN] coThreads 0.10) Matthew Hannigan
2007-09-20 11:39                   ` [Caml-list] Re: [ANN] coThreads 0.10 Florian Weimer
2007-09-20 15:46                     ` skaller
2007-09-20 18:14                       ` Ken Rose
2007-09-20  8:31           ` Zheng Li
2007-09-20  8:18         ` Zheng Li
2007-09-18  2:10 ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-18  5:59   ` skaller
2007-09-18  6:23     ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-18  9:01       ` Zheng Li
2007-09-18 13:40         ` Zheng Li
2007-09-18 23:53           ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2007-09-18  9:09       ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2007-09-18 13:03       ` Markus E L

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