Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: Harold Carter Edwards <carter@ticam.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: Signaling arrival of messages in MPICH 1.0.13
Organization: Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 19:11:18 -0600
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> In article <1997Jan27.221351.27456@jarvis.cs.toronto.edu> paullu@sys.toronto.edu (Paul Lu) writes:
> >
> >I would like to have the arrival of a message cause a handler
> >to be executed.  All that this handler would do is wake up
> >a daemon which ultimately does a MPI_Iprobe()/MPI_Probe().
> >
> >I realize that this functionality is probably anti-standard
> >and would be implementation specific, but I would like to
> >be able to do it in MPICH 1.0.13 anyways.
> 

Have a look at
 
	http://www.ticam.utexas.edu/users/carter/mmpi.html

You will find a library which provides handler functionality using only
MPI calls - no extensions, signals, or other such non-MPI calls. 

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