[mpich-discuss] non mpich programs question

[Mandar Gurav]

Blender (www.blender.org - suite of tools for 3D creation) supports
multithreading. Upto my knowledge it does not support mpi!!!

- Another Happy MPICH user

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Nicolas Rosner <nrosner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Message-passing function calls are never generated automatically:
> someone must have written the software (or part of it) using MPI calls
> before it can take advantage of MPI-based parallelism.
>
> So the short answer is: No, you won't get a speed boost by merely
> running any commercial program like Photoshop on an MPI-enabled
> machine or cluster.
>
> However, many such programs (especially, but not only, 3D and A/V
> rendering software) do have some  parallel and/or distributed
> processing abilities, sometimes built-in, sometimes as an add-on of
> some sort (e.g. a "rendering farm" component, etc).
>
> Each such component may or may not be able to use MPI as a back-end
> (some use their own flavor of message-passing, esp. commercial ones,
> but it depends on the case).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Happy MPICH user
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Andrew Toney <velcropunk87 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Support,
>> Will commercial software such as Photoshop, Rhino, Bonzai, or 3dsMax run on
>> a Windows Xp system with mpich2 installed, and have its 'messages passed'
>> (ie run in parallel on the nodes), or because the software is not compiled
>> to run on mpi configuration will only run on the host computer?
>> Thanks,
>> Hopeful MPICH user
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