Any interest in including this module?

[Steve Spicklemire]

I've cooked up a module (handympi, that requires pypar) that makes it almost trivial for students to take advantage of an mpi environment. Is there any interest in including this, or something like it, in the pypar distribution?

thanks,

-steve

[Ole Nielsen]

Hi Steve

Thank you so much for your mail and module. I noticed that you have implemented a robust way of working on sequential systems too. This is something I do all the time when using pypar to make sure the code can run even when no MPI or pypar is present. So nice to see you doing it too.

As for the entire module and its documentation I'd be very happy to include it in the pypar distribution. In fact, if you want, I'll just add you to the small list of committers for the project and you can put it in yourself.

I'll ask one thing, though, that you consider writing a few unit tests and examples using your module so that people can verify that it runs as expected on their system (or if they add something to it down the track). This is a little bit of an extra investment, but pays of several fold down the track.

I am really happy you are getting this functionality out to students and at the same time promoting the open source approach.  

 

Best regards

Ole

PS - I'll be presenting at SciPy2012 in Mumbay next week. Would you mind if I mention your work there?

[Steve Spicklemire]

Great! Sure.. I'll cook up some tests. And yes.. you're welcome to mention this if you like!

take care,
-steve

[Ole Nielsen]

Great
Let me know when you are ready to roll the module into the pypar distro.

Cheers and thanks
Ole