Komodo MP status?

[Lion]

I believe selling a cluster soft is an good idea even so the public I would believe would be relatively small.

Reason for that is that there is clearly a slow down in hardware and thus, proposing a cluster is a way to overcome this limitation/slowdown.

Regards

[gleperlier]

What is the purpose of a "public" cluster : Does it mean one would be able to make a cluster with for example 2 laptops and a desktop ?

Best wishes,

Gab

[Don]

What is the purpose of a "public" cluster : Does it mean one would be able to make a cluster with for example 2 laptops and a desktop ?

Best wishes,

Gab

I think MPI is normally run on clusters provisioned exactly for the purpose, but there is no limitation that prevents it from being used on any ad-hoc set of computers. They don't even have to have the same performance.

MPI is really just a library of standardized routines for communication between computing units (which could be cores or other machines.) There are many protocols for communicated between different machines but this is optimized of course specifically for parallel computing.

One could build a parallel chess program by communicating with sockets or any number of different protocols but that would really be awkward - MPI is designed just for this purpose.

You can also use MPI for building an MP based program. Nothing stops you from running on just a quad for instance.

[gleperlier]

What is the purpose of a "public" cluster : Does it mean one would be able to make a cluster with for example 2 laptops and a desktop ?
Best wishes,
Gab

I think MPI is normally run on clusters provisioned exactly for the purpose, but there is no limitation that prevents it from being used on any ad-hoc set of computers. They don't even have to have the same performance.

MPI is really just a library of standardized routines for communication between computing units (which could be cores or other machines.) There are many protocols for communicated between different machines but this is optimized of course specifically for parallel computing.

One could build a parallel chess program by communicating with sockets or any number of different protocols but that would really be awkward - MPI is designed just for this purpose.

You can also use MPI for building an MP based program. Nothing stops you from running on just a quad for instance.

Thanks Don for the explaination !

So i agree, would be really great

[Lion]

How Don,

How are progress going ?
Has the nasty bug been fixed ?

Regards

[Don]

How Don,

How are progress going ?
Has the nasty bug been fixed ?

Regards

Yes, I have been able to put some time into this and have solved most of the problems. There is a still several hours of work left but I see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Don

[Lion]

So do we.

Thanks

[Werewolf]

Keep going Don, you're almost there!

[Hood]

Hi,
there was a promise that version 4.1 will be free for v4 buyers. Will it cover v5 if there will be not v4.1?
Rgds
Hood

[MM]

How Don,

How are progress going ?
Has the nasty bug been fixed ?

Regards

There is a still several hours of work left but I see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Don

At the end of this unfinished tunnel i see a light too, Houdini 3.