I have just put ScientificPython 2.0.1 and 2.1.0 on my FTP server, ftp://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/pub/ScientificPython/ while Starship is recovering. Version 2.0.1 is mostly a bugfix release, with only minor additions. 2.1.0 is identical to 2.0.1 except for the addition of an MPI interface module. I have tested this on only one platform (Linux/Intel running MPICH), so I would be very interested in feedback from people running different MPI platforms. MPI support in ScientificPython is still very basic; there are probably more complete MPI interfaces out there. The strong point of ScientificPython's interface is the integration into Python: communicators are Python objects, all communication happens via methods defined on communicator objects, support is provided for sending and receiving both string and NumPy array objects. Moreover, Python scripts can rather easily be written in such a way that they work both with and without MPI support, of course using only a single processor when no MPI is available. Finally, there is a full C API as well, which means that other C modules can make use of MPI without having to link to the MPI library, which is particularly useful for dynamic library modules. It also facilitates packaging of MPI-based code, which doesn't need to know anything at all about the MPI library. Happy Easter, Konrad. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen | E-Mail: hinsen@cnrs-orleans.fr Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire (CNRS) | Tel.: +33-2.38.25.55.69 Rue Charles Sadron | Fax: +33-2.38.63.15.17 45071 Orleans Cedex 2 | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/ France | Nederlands/Francais -------------------------------------------------------------------------------