orca

Orca, a Guile (https://www.gnu.org/s/guile/) library that aims to provide Remote Procedure Call (RPC) capabilities using Message Passing Interface (MPI).

Getting Started

Dependencies

• libmpich12
• Guile (2.2, 2.4, 3.0)
• GNU make tools

Installing

• ./bootstrap
• ./configure
• sudo make install

Using library

Code to gather computation results from all processes:

(use-modules (orca))

(define (process-id-message) (format #f "process ~a" (rpc-worker-process-id)))

(rpc-start)
(format #t "I'm master process. Received ~s ~%" (rpc-make '(process-id-message)))
(rpc-finalize)

Command to run program using 4 processes:

mpirun -n 4 ./rpc-print-process-ids.scm

Output:

I'm master process. Received ("process 0" "process 1" "process 2" "process 3")

See examples directory for more examples.

Authors

• artu

Version History

• 0.1
  • Initial Release

License

This project is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License - see the COPYING.LESSER file for details.

Please send comments on orca to artu@sdf.org