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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Very interesting indeed. I didn't notice.
I wouldn't claim that, by definition, it is more safe than mpi4py (just 
another wrapper) but it would remove that dependency.

I wonder if a simple replacement of mpi4py.comm by boost.mpi.comm would 
do the trick. If they followed same naming conventions it could.

Cheers

Bruno


On 03/03/2021 23:56, Janek Kozicki (yade) wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
>
> There is a boost::mpi library built on top of OpenMPI, MPICH2, IntelMPI [0].
> In the introduction [1] they say it's just a wrapper for OpenMPI,
> MPICH2 and IntelMPI. By using boost you could have some extra safety.
>
> Example [2]:
>
> int main(int argc, char* argv[])
> {
>    mpi::environment env(argc, argv);
>    mpi::communicator world;
>    std::cout << "I am process " << world.rank() << " of " << world.size()
>              << "." << std::endl;
>    return 0;
> }
>
> Python example [3]:
>
>    import boost.mpi as mpi
>    print "I am process %d of %d." % (mpi.rank, mpi.size)
>
> Have a look :)
> Janek
>
> [0] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/doc/html/mpi.html
> [1] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/doc/html/mpi/getting_started.html
> [2] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/doc/html/mpi/tutorial.html
> [3] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/doc/html/mpi/python.html