Boost current release: 1.53
On SL6: boost-1.41
On SL5: boost-1.33 (default) + boost141
yum insall boost141 boost141-openmpi-devel
/etc/profile.d/boost.sh
export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/boost141/ export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/boost141/
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/doc/html/boost_asio/examples.html
http://www.fis.unipr.it/home/roberto.alfieri/didattica/matdid/prog/http/http-c/
g++ -lboost_system-mt -lboost_program_options sync_client.cpp -o sync_client g++ -lboost_system-mt -lboost_program_options async_client.cpp -o async_client