Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: us014447@interramp.com (Ken Bandes)
Subject: MPI on Windows NT?
Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 16:09:11 GMT
Message-ID: <4j3vrm$lv6@usenet7.interramp.com>

Is anyone working on an MPI implementation for Windows NT?  I looked
at WinMPI.  This was written for Windows 3.1, which is a very
different beast and which requires a lot of design compromises that NT
would not.  Windows 3.1 is a 16-bit environment with non-preemptive
multitasking, whereas NT is a real operating system (go ahead and
sneer, but it is).

I wouldn't be opposed to undertaking this myself, but I wouldn't be
able to do it at work and I don't know if it's too large a job to do
at home in my spare time, such as it is.  I'm starting to look through
the MPICH material to get a feeling for the scope of the project, but
I'm not there yet.

Actually, I'm hoping to promote the use of MPI at work (we have a
mixed environment with UNIX and NT), but it'll be a harder sell if I
tell them we have to implement it first.

Ken Bandes
Home:
bandesk@interramp.com
Work:
bandes@sbcm.com



