Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: Luc.Vereecken@chem.kuleuven.ac.be (Vereecken Luc)
Subject: Re: looking for parallel simulation package in MPI
Organization: K.U.Leuven
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:50:27 GMT
Message-ID: <60gdle$50n@chaos.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be>

Lars Rzymianowicz <lr@mufasa.informatik.uni-mannheim.de> wrote:

>This would be nice:
> - a moderately big app (>10.000 lines of code) in free source code,
>where
>   you only have to modify the Makefile, recompile and WOW, it runs...
>   (i'm tired of demonstrating the power of message passing with the
>    mandelbrot app). Something like Ray-Tracing, 3D-Modeling, ... would
>be
>   an ideal candidate.

There is a fair number of number-crunching parallel programs (I'm
writing one too), but they tend to be pretty boring to look at : the
program starts, reads in the data, does nothing but calculate, and
then spits out huge amount of data, which in the ideal case is
identical to the serial output. The only difference would be the
calculation time (this should be less, in the ideal case). You seem to
be looking for a graphical WOW-LOOK-AT-THAT kind of program.

Luc.Vereecken@chem.kuleuven.ac.Be