Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: hpritcha@mr.net
Subject: Re: MPI on cray J90
Organization: mrnet
Date: 23 Jun 1996 02:14:54 GMT
Message-ID: <4qi9au$1rp@news.mr.net>

In article <4qenlp$lq1@rugch4.chem.rug.nl>, hoesel@chem.rug.nl (Frans van 
Hoesel) writes:

>
>Hi,
>I did search the net to find any info on running MPI on a cray J90 without
>any result.
>
>Someone claimed that there is a native version available for a little less
>than $5000. (still a *LOT* of money for a program that should probably
>have been part of the supplied opereating system)
>the questions are:
>1) does it exists, and if so how good is it?
>2) is $5000 money well spend on this version?
>3) where can I get more information
>
>- frans
>
>(I'm sorry to rudely intrude your newsgroup without first reading a lot of
> messages, but decisions have to be made pretty soon)
>
>

I believe what you heard about was the Message Passing Toolkit.  There
only needs to be one license for the site, so you should ask your
system administrator to contact the account manager.  The Toolkit 
basically allows you to run a message passing code using PVM or MPI
as a multitasked application.  PVM applications using the MPT do
not need a PVM daemon, for instance.  The shared memory functions
available on the T3D/T3E are also available in the Toolkit.

Howard Pritchard 
hpp@cray.com

