Parallel Python

[robert]

Nick Maclaren wrote:
> In article <7x8xga215f.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:
> |>
> |> > Yes, I know that it is a bit Irish for the best way to use a shared
> |> > memory system to be to not share memory, but that's how it is.
> |> 
> |> But I thought serious MPI implementations use shared memory if they
> |> can.  That's the beauty of it, you can run your application on SMP
> |> processors getting the benefit of shared memory, or split it across
> |> multiple machines using ethernet or infiniband or whatever, without
> |> having to change the app code.
> 
> They use it for the communication, but don't expose it to the
> programmer.  It is therefore easy to put the processes on different
> CPUs, and get the memory consistency right.
> 

Thus communicated data is "serialized" - not directly used as with threads or with custom shared memory techniques like POSH object sharing.


Robert