Bug#604161: ITP: mpi4py -- bindings of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard

[NeuroDebian Team]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: NeuroDebian Team <debian at onerussian.com>


* Package name    : mpi4py
  Version         : 1.2.2
  Upstream Author : Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com>
* URL             : http://mpi4py.googlecode.com/
* License         : BSD-2
  Programming Lang: Python, C, Pyrex
  Description     : bindings of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard

MPI for Python (mpi4py) provides bindings of the Message Passing Interface
(MPI) standard for the Python programming language, allowing any Python program
to exploit multiple processors.
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This package is constructed on top of the MPI-1/MPI-2 specification and
provides an object oriented interface which closely follows MPI-2 C++ bindings.
It supports point-to-point (sends, receives) and collective (broadcasts,
scatters, gathers) communications of any picklable Python object as well as
optimized communications of Python object exposing the single-segment buffer
interface (NumPy arrays, builtin bytes/string/array objects). 
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Packaging mpi4py as a prerequisite for PyNN (ITP #604159).
Also, a copy of mpi4py (1.0.0) seems to be a part of paraview.