[vtk-developers] vtkMPIController::Initialize() and wrapped languages

Shead, Timothy tshead at sandia.gov
Tue May 17 16:51:42 EDT 2011


On May 17, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:

> Why not just call MPI_Initialized?  That would be a lot more reliable than
> having the user manage a flag.

It really boils down to the semantics of all the various use-cases - if you call MPI_Init() followed by vtkMPIController::Initialize(), if you call vtkMPIController::Initialize() multiple times, etc. should any of those cases be considered error conditions?  Warnings?  Or quietly ignored?

Cheers,
Tim

Timothy M. Shead
Sandia National Laboratories
1461, Scalable Analysis and Visualization





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