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