MPI Boost Library

• Sorry, poor notes, spent way too much time programming.
• The Library page.
• A really useful thing for me.
• Fractal.cpp
  • A driver routine that
    • Partitions and distributes the work
    • assembles the image.
  • Worker routines
    • Request and perform work.
• Features:
  • non-blocking communications. (isend, irecv)
  • Data structure transport via serialization (using boost library)
  • Use of tags.
• Communications pattern
  • Driver listens for a message
  • Message Types:
    • WORK_REQUEST_TAG: the worker would like some data
      • Driver responds with either
        • WORK_AVAILABLE_TAG and WORK_TAG
        • NO_MORE_WORK_TAG
    • WORK_DONE_TAG
      • Driver receives the data and stores it in the image.
  • I think I can eliminate the for loop in the ProcessMessage with event driven results, but I don't know how (yet).
• Man do I love the standard library.