Newsgroups: comp.parallel,comp.parallel.mpi
From: jyelon@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Joshua M. Yelon)
Subject: Re: Active messages
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 04:26:49 GMT
Message-ID: <34gr29$m7n@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>

>|> I am trying to find machines that have some implementation of Active
>|> messages. I know that CM-5 has it, but I am would like to know whether
>|> someone else does.

If you want active messages because they are a good programming model,
you may be interested in checking out Charm (a programming language based
on active messages to object-oriented parallel entities).  Charm is a
variant of C/C++.  Look in http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu.

If you only want active messages for their improved performance, charm
can't really help - since charm builds on top of the OS's (usually non-
active) message layer, its performance is limited by the machine's OS.

- Josh



