Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: gdburns@osc.edu (Greg Burns)
Subject: Re: MPI for mult-processor Pentium Pros under Linux
Organization: Ohio Supercomputer Center
Date: 11 Oct 1996 11:37:08 -0400
Message-ID: <53lpj4$fkp@tbag.osc.edu>

In article <53h1bn$950@pr1.plk.af.mil> colella@nimue.plk.af.mil (Shari Colella NumerEx) writes:
>Hello:
>
>Does anyone know of an implementation of MPI that can used on
>multi-processor Pentium Pros running Linux?  We want an implementation
>that will use shared memory for this kind of platform.  We currently use
>MPICH on our network of RISCs and Sparcs, but it doesn't appear to have
>sh_mem as an option under Linux.  Can any of the current implementations
>do this, or will we have to wait until this kind of platform is more common?

LAM 6.1 has a multi-protocol MPI transport that uses shared memory
within multiprocessors and TCP across the network.  Linux is supported.

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

