From: "Ralf Müller" <r_mueller@...>
Date: 2005-02-09T16:30:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Grid computing with Ruby?

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 07:06:39 +0900
Alexander Staubo <alex@byzantine.no> wrote:

> Ralf M�ller wrote:
> > Maybe it's not what you meant, but there is a MPI-API in Ruby. 
> > You can find it under http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpi_ruby/. 
> 
> I'm not familiar enough with MPI to say whether it suits my purpose; 
> however, I do know it's only useful insofar as there are free 
> P2P/socket-based implementations available. I'll take a look.
> 
> Alexander.
> 
Take a look at LAM = Local Area Multicomputer, its a full implementation of MPI (http://www.lam-mpi.org). I used it to test geophysical simulation (in C ,about 5 years ago) and was very satisfied.
But i did not test the mpiruby package.

regards
ralf