Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: Ole Streicher <ole@hpbai1.ifh.de>
Subject: simple parallelization?
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Zeuthen, Germanyo
Date: 15 May 1998 12:38:49 +0200
Message-ID: <ypvogwzn7ie.fsf@hpbai1.ifh.de>

Hi!

I am new to MPI and I am wondering if there are already functions to
handle independent calculations.
What do I mean: We have mostly a general program structure like

while (there_is_an_event()) {
  read_event(data);
  compute_something_with_the_event(data);
  if (the_result_is_good(data))
    write_event(data);
}

with independent events. I would now parallelize just the computing
part. 
Is this some kind of a standard problem which may have a standard
solution? (I thought about a ring buffer which contains all events and 
distributes a new one as soon one comes ready).

Thank you

Tschuessi

Ole