From: Andrew Holden (aholden_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-02 12:20:00
Hartmut Kaiser [hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden]] wrote:
>
> What I meant is to implement Asio on top of the (highly
> efficient) MPI transport layer. Asio currently supports the
> IP protocol only, where MPI gives you access to a whole bunch
> of different network implementations (Myrinet etc.). Do I
> misunderstand something?
>
> Regards Hartmut
ASIO provides low-level access to the network. You can implement any
TCP/IP or UDP/IP protocol using ASIO. You could, for example, write a
web browser or ftp client that uses ASIO for its network communications.
In fact, I seem to recall a library that does exactly that.
MPI is a protocol. Specifically, it provides message passing for
distributed computing. Because of MPI's structure, it is not possible
to implement an arbitrary protocol like HTTP or FTP using MPI.