Charm++ parallel programming system

[董理 <dongli AT lasg.iap.ac.cn>]

Dear all,

In the manual of Charm++, it says:

The Charm++ framework implements its own main function and retains control until the parallel execution environment is initialized and ready for executing user code. Hence, the user program must not define a main() function.

Does it mean we cannot use Charm++ in a library, which will be used by other application? The scenario is that the application is an atmospheric circulation model (say A), and the library is an advection algorithm (say B). A has its own parallel model, and is out of my control. I would like to implement B to use Charm++ as the underlying parallel engine. Could it be done in this way? Thanks in advance!

Best regards,

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Dr. Li Dong (董理)

LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Beijing 100029, China

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