Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: gdburns@osc.edu (Greg Burns)
Subject: Re: LAM amd PThreads
Organization: Ohio Supercomputer Center
Date: 2 May 1996 11:44:35 -0400
Message-ID: <4mal93$qla@tbag.osc.edu>

In article <3188A654.41C6@mathpool.uni-augsburg.de> Lothar Thum <thum@mathpool.uni-augsburg.de> writes:
>
>i'm testing how MPI can work with PThreads. Now i came to a problem
>[stuff deleted]
>
>I'm working with LAM 6.0 and hope you can explain what's up with this
>program.
>

LAM 6.0 is not thread safe.  The standard does not mandate thread safety
but it is designed to work in a thread safe environment.

We are planning to make LAM/MPI thread-safe in a forthcoming version.

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Greg Burns				gdburns@osc.edu
Ohio Supercomputer Center		http://www.osc.edu/lam.html

