[Chicago] MPI in Python?

[Michael Tobis]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Massimo Di Pierro
<mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> If you need parallelization ,you care about speed. If you care about
>  speed use C/C++.

Some of the reasons for a mixed programming model including Python are
listed here:

http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/Parallel_Computing

At the University of Chicago we (mostly Mike Steder, now unfortunately
gainfully employed :-/) had a project that linked fortran90 and python
in a shared MPI communicator-world. This presented a lot of hurdles,
but I remain convinced it is a worthwhile approach. If only the legacy
code were in a sane language it would have been a slam dunk in favor
of Python+MPI.

mt