[FRIAM] Fwd: ABM

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Douglas Roberts wrote:
> In that case, you will positively *hate* Charm++:
>
One disappointing thing about it is that they made a new language that 
is mostly like C++ and translate it to C++ code (instead of, say, adding 
features to the GCC OpenMP implementation for C++ and cross box thread 
migration, or writing a new GCC front end).    Seems like it is mostly 
an MPI-like object layer, but they maddeningly don't enhance OpenMPI to 
their own needs, they do their own thing. 

The array stuff reminds me of Chapel (http://chapel.cs.washington.edu), 
but this has the benefit of being implemented!  Interesting they have 
the NAMD molecular dynamics package running on the Cell..