Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: Yon Han Chong <Y.H.Chong@cranfield.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help
Organization: Cranfield University
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 21:56:52 +0100
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Jim Webber wrote:
> 
> I'm new to parallelism research, and keep hearing the acronyms PVM and MPI
> banded about.
> 
> can someone give me a brief overview of MPI and perhaps explain why it seems to
> be gaining more popularity than PVM?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> --
> Jim Webber
> University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

Following page gives top 10 reasons to prefer MPI over PVM:

http://www.osc.edu/Lam/mpi/mpi_top10.html

Another good reason to use MPI is that as more people start to use it
you have more people whom you can ask when you have a problem.

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