Meeting 2 [07/02/11]

During the second meeting I presented my results to David. I also explained that using the C++ Standard Template Library could be nice and effective to store information on the profiler side.

One of the problem comes from the MPI interface, that has to be overloaded in C, and the interface/STL code that has to be in C++. Using C from C++ is relatively easy (extern "C" keyword and most of the C standard libraries are available - like #include for #include "stdlib.h"). The other way around is tricky enough to give a proper think about it.

So two main goals are to be considered for next meeting :

• try to do an interface with Qt - and thus tackle the C/C++ binding
• start to think about the display:
  
  • what should be displayed
  • how should it be displayed

The idea of the project is therefore still focussing on flagging up common errors and not developing a swiss-army knife for MPI.
The basic errors listed so far during the meeting were :

• broadcast on a single node
• synchronized send with no matching receive
• data problems

The next meeting will be Monday 21st of February