Lua, MPI, and parallelization.

[Simon Frost <sdfrost@...>]

Dear Lua list,

Has anyone experimented with making an MPI-enabled Lua interpreter? My idea 
is quite simple; essentially use LuaPickle to serialize Lua data structures 
and pass them around with MPI_Send and MPI_Receive. Obviously, this is 
limited as this scheme doesn't serialize user data, but my needs are to 
make a very limited embedded Lua interpreter. I've tried to play with Alua, 
which as far as I can see, can serialize the C side of things, but so far I 
haven't got it to compile cleanly on my Linux cluster.

Best
Simon