Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.parallel.mpi
From: singhai@ta23.cs.uiuc.edu (Ashish Singhai)
Subject: Re: Filesystem-based message passing system?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: 13 Sep 94 22:18:16 GMT
Message-ID: <singhai.779494696@ta23.cs.uiuc.edu>

dfields@lehman.com (Doug Fields) writes:

>Hello. I'm looking for any available implementations of a message
>passing architecture (such as PVM's pvm_send/pvm_receive, etc.) which
>uses the UNIX (or actually, any) filesystem as the transport layer.

>I would greatly appreciate it if anyone who knows anything about this
>could point me in the proper direction.

	It should not take too much work to take a sockets implementation
and convert it to use unix-domain sockets.  But I am not sure if that is
what you are looking for.

- ashish
singhai@cs.uiuc.edu

