Shee'at... Now I find that if I would have flipped forward 10 pages, the C++ bindings are covered in the text. They are listed in an appendix in the back of the book, but the usage is a little vague in the appendix given the lack of examples (i.e. the syntax is shown, but out of context). I guess they are going to cover Fortran and C++ as the C bindings are the same as the Fortran bindings. So I wasted $60 on the other MPI book. No, not wasted, the other book has some interesting things in it - which I will savor over the holiday break.
More disappointment. I looked into XML+XSLT for Safari and it looks to be a no go. Safari used the KHTML rendering engine which apparently supports on XML+CSS2.1 :( Interesting how in less than two years something that I learned is nearly completely useless to me.
Working in the lab today building the MPI cluster. One host took 3 hours yesterday :( Hopefully the update site won't be crushed today. While the hosts are building, I'll be programming.
Well, I haven't got much programming yet, but I have a cluster of four MPI nodes. Every node is up to date. Soon, I will rebuild the lab's main server and setup rinetd so that each of these boxes will be available on the net.
It only took 4 hours to build the three remaining servers. SuSE's online update mirrors weren't getting slammed today; very nice. I now have a 5 node MPI cluster: one node for the master, 4 for computation. Now to make some headway with the code.
