Inspiration

Inspirational Quote from Bill Gropp that describes the motivation behind distarray very well:

You want to think about how you decompose your data structures, how you think about them globally. [...] If you were building a house, you’d start with a set of blueprints that give you a picture of what the whole house looks like. You wouldn’t start with a bunch of tiles and say. “Well I’ll put this tile down on the ground, and then I’ll find a tile to go next to it.” But all too many people try to build their parallel programs by creating the smallest possible tiles and then trying to have the structure of their code emerge from the chaos of all these little pieces. You have to have an organizing principle if you’re going to survive making your code parallel.

(http://www.rce-cast.com/Podcast/rce-28-mpich2.html)