Charm++ parallel programming system

[Jim Phillips <jim AT ks.uiuc.edu>]

Yes, you can write Charm++ libraries that are called from MPI programs.

See http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/manuals/html/charm++/25.html

Jim


On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, ?~Q??~P~F wrote:

> Dear all,
> In the manual of Charm++, it says:
>
>       The Charm++ framework implements its own main function and retains 
> control until the parallel execution environment is initialized and ready
>       for executing user code. Hence, the user program must not define a 
> main() function.
>
>
> Does it mean we cannot use Charm++ in a library, which will be used by other 
> application? The scenario is that the application is an atmospheric 
> circulation model
> (say A), and the library is an advection algorithm (say B). A has its own 
> parallel model, and is out of my control. I would like to implement B to use 
> Charm++ as
> the underlying parallel engine. Could it be done in this way? Thanks in 
> advance!
>
> Best regards,
>
> -----------------------------------------
> Dr. Li Dong (??????)
> LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics
> Chinese Academy of Sciences
> P.O. Box 9804
> Beijing 100029, China
> Phone: 8610-8299 5143