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    I have an application which has its GUI and uses COM technology. I want to use MPI in one of the modules of the application. I wonder how will the system behave concerning COM technology in general.

    And how will the existance of GUI affect the MPI parallesation.

    I would be thankfull if someone could give a link to a reference about internal work principals of the MS MPI, I mean what REALLY happens when I call MPI_Init() - is it something like UNIX fork() with copying the whole process envirorment via network (including all dlls that proccess loads) or just some binary code delegation?
    Friday, July 17, 2009 10:47 AM

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    There is no inherent conflict between MPI, COM, and a gui. You have to be careful about threading, but that is true for each of those technologies on their own.

    Regarding what goes on in MPI_Init, you could look here:
    http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/mpich2/browser/mpich2/trunk/src/mpi/init/init.c

    It sounds like you are more interested in the process creation, which is in mpiexec or the job manager.

    • Marked as answer by Don Pattee Wednesday, December 9, 2009 6:24 AM
    Friday, July 24, 2009 7:30 PM