Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: Spyros Pollatos <sxp@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: MPI & SunOS 5.3 threads
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 13:32:03 GMT
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Hi,

I am developing an application using LAM 5.2 and SunOS 5.3 threads. It seems
to me that according to the ``MPI: A Message-Passing Interface Standard'' 
MPI should be thread-safe. However, nothing in the locally available LAM
documentation mentions threads. Furthermore, as soon as two of my threads call 
LAM functions, everything just grinds to a halt.

The way I see it, two things could be wrong: either LAM 5.2 is not thread safe,
or I have got a major bug in my hands.

Does anyone out there have any similar experience? 

	S.P.

