Ralf Mler 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.