Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: cattoni@irst.itc.it (Roldano Cattoni)
Subject: MPICH and P4 blocking message passing mechanism
Organization: Istituto Trentino di Cultura - IRST
Date: 14 Feb 1996 11:07:56 GMT
Message-ID: <CATTONI.96Feb14120756@corallo.itc.it>

I read on an article appeared in "Parallel Computing" that one notable
restriction of the P4 system is that its message passing mechanism is
entirely blocking.

MPICH uses P4 for the workstation architectures: taking in account that MPI
includes non-blocking calls, I am curious how this (apparent?) conflict is
solved by MPICH.

Many thanks in advance

	Roldano Cattoni
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