Definitely the boost.mpi bindings are more useful; but I don't have the information if it is being used more. For example Microsoft does not ship the C++ bindings for several reason; (like compiler incompatibilities), but does point to boost.mpi as the C++ binding of choice. Thanks, .Erez -----Original Message----- From: mpi-21-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:mpi-21-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Rolf Rabenseifner Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:09 AM To: MPI 2.1 Mailing List Cc: Martin Bernreuther Subject: [Mpi-21] Relevance of C++ MPI binding of www.boost.org All C++ MPI specialists, which relevance has the MPI C++ binding of Boost ( http://www.boost.org/ )? In the actual version 1.35 http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1_35_0 one can find a "C++-friendly interface to the standard Message Passing Interface". The comment from boost: "Although there exist C++ bindings for MPI, they offer little functionality over the C bindings." Is there any knowledge of whether in real C++ programming, whether the official C++ MPI binding or the C++ boost MPI binding is more often used in the C++ community? For me, the answer may have implications on how separate or integrated additional bindings should be integrated into the language independent text of the MPI standard. Best regards Rolf PS: As non-C++-specialist, this question is based on a question from Martin Bernreuther. The citations are from him. Dr. Rolf Rabenseifner . . . . . . . . . .. email rabenseifner_at_[hidden] High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) . phone ++49(0)711/685-65530 University of Stuttgart . . . . . . . . .. fax ++49(0)711 / 685-65832 Head of Dpmt Parallel Computing . . . www.hlrs.de/people/rabenseifner Nobelstr. 19, D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany . (Office: Allmandring 30) _______________________________________________ mpi-21 mailing list mpi-21_at_[hidden] http://lists.mpi-forum.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/mpi-21