[Beowulf] MorphMPI based on fortran itf (was: MPI ABI)

[Greg Lindahl]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:05:13PM +0100, Ashley Pittman wrote:

> Thirdly is the performance issue, any MPI vendor worth his salt tries
> very hard to reduce the number of function calls and library's between
> the application and the network, adding another one is a step in the
> wrong direction. This may not matter so much for ethernet clusters but
> certainly for some people the software stack accounts for a surprising
> percentage of "network" latency.

OK, so that's a new item for the Technical List Of Things To Do:
measure the overhead. I suspect it'll turn out to be small, even for
interconnects that care about 50 nanoseconds of additional overhead.

-- greg