Portable Ocaml multiprocessing?

Portable Ocaml multiprocessing?

[Dmitry Bely]

There are numerous environments/libraries that support process-based
Ocaml multiprocessing: jocaml, OCamlP3l, OcamlMPI (and probably
others). Do I get it right that all of them are Unix-only?

- Dmitry Bely

Re: Portable Ocaml multiprocessing?

[Sylvain Le Gall]

On 28-01-2009, Dmitry Bely <dmitry.bely@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are numerous environments/libraries that support process-based
> Ocaml multiprocessing: jocaml, OCamlP3l, OcamlMPI (and probably
> others). Do I get it right that all of them are Unix-only?
>

jocaml and ocamlp3l seems indeed unix only. I think however that there
is no reason that MPI cannot be used on Windows (I assume this is your
question). Maybe it will require some additional work.

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall

Re: [Caml-list] Re: Portable Ocaml multiprocessing?

[Andres Varon]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:

> On 28-01-2009, Dmitry Bely <dmitry.bely@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are numerous environments/libraries that support process-based
>> Ocaml multiprocessing: jocaml, OCamlP3l, OcamlMPI (and probably
>> others). Do I get it right that all of them are Unix-only?
>>
>
> jocaml and ocamlp3l seems indeed unix only. I think however that there
> is no reason that MPI cannot be used on Windows (I assume this is your
> question). Maybe it will require some additional work.

OcamlMPI in windows works fine. I have distributed software using  
mpich2 for that platform with no problem, and the same code runs in OS  
X, Linux, and Windows workstations, as well as clusters using a  
variety of operating systems. Very portable.

Andres

>
>
> Regards,
> Sylvain Le Gall
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Re: [Caml-list] Portable Ocaml multiprocessing?

[Andres Varon]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Dmitry Bely wrote:

> There are numerous environments/libraries that support process-based
> Ocaml multiprocessing: jocaml, OCamlP3l, OcamlMPI (and probably
> others). Do I get it right that all of them are Unix-only?


I have used mpich2 in windows: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/

Andres

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Re: Portable Ocaml multiprocessing?

[Zheng Li]

On 1/28/2009 11:35 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> On 28-01-2009, Dmitry Bely<dmitry.bely@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> There are numerous environments/libraries that support process-based
>> Ocaml multiprocessing: jocaml, OCamlP3l, OcamlMPI (and probably
>> others). Do I get it right that all of them are Unix-only?
>>
>
> jocaml and ocamlp3l seems indeed unix only. I think however that there
> is no reason that MPI cannot be used on Windows (I assume this is your
> question). Maybe it will require some additional work.

OcamlP3l should have no substantial problems running on windows and 
other OSes. AFAICS, the only missing part is just specialized Makefiles 
(on those platforms).

Regards
--
Zheng