Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: rmeenaks@bfm.com (Ram Meenakshisundaram)
Subject: Re: MPI for transputers
Organization: BlackRock Financial Management Inc.
Date: 23 Apr 1996 18:36:38 GMT
Message-ID: <4lj7vm$skd@webster.bfm.com>

Lutz Laemmer (laemmer@automatix.iib.bauwesen.th-darmstadt.de) wrote:
: In article ol4@webster.bfm.com, rmeenaks@bfm.com (Ram Meenakshisundaram) writes:
: >   Yes I know that there are MPI for FORTRAN and C.  I don't think
: >there is a OCCAM version.  I was basically looking for a native version
: >specifically designed for the transputers.  A good start might be MPICH,
: >which has the channel implementation of MPI.  Currently, I only know of
: >one version for the Parix Operating environment for Transputers, however,
: >several people reported that they had problems getting it to work.  As for
: >trasputers themselves, INMOS-SGS introduced the ST450 transputer just 
: >recently and the T9000 is still in production.  IMHO, I think they had a
: >great product and blew it when they didn't offer a language other than OCCAM.
: >Is it dead, no.  Is it going to die, yes and sooner than most people think.


: Hi,

: public domain MPIch for transputers with Parix (proprietary by Parsytec) 
: operating system is provided by our site. It works fine for both PowerPC 
: and transputer systems and uses the channel implementation of MPIch.

: Linkable libraries for Parsytec compiler systems are available 
: on request (send me an email) to avoid the errorsome installation 
: and compilation of the sources in the mpich-distribution.

: I am wondering, there is no transputer MPI implementation on top of the
: virtual channel router (VCR) software by the University of Southampton, UK.


   Yes.  I know about your site's port of MPIch.  Unfortunately, I do not
have Parix as my original post said.  I have a generic set of transputers and 
was wondering if MPIch was ported to Inmos' C compiler, 3L's FORTRAN compiler,
or even f2c for transputers.  As for VCR, thats an option I didn't think 
about.  Are there any takers on a port of MPI to VCR or the other mentioned
languages? 


Ram

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