Massively Parallel Islands via MPI, parallel IPython, and/or BOINC

by dantexid for European Space Agency, The Advanced Concepts Team

The project implies implementing within the PaGMO project code base, the functionality for multi processor computing using MPI, IPython and BOINIC. The task requires designing a clustering strategy and the creation of special base classes for each parallelizing approach (MPI, BOINC). The solution needs to work irrespective of the migration policy. I plan to create a parallel_island class that inherits from the base island class and implements the marshalling and unmarshalling of the MPI objects.