Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: Jim Webber <james.webber@ncl.ac.uk>
Subject: Newbie needs help
Organization: Subhumans R Us
Date: 3 Oct 1996 08:08:06 GMT
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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


