Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: chris@cli70mc.der.edf.fr (Christian.Caremoli@der.edf.fr)
Subject: Re: Shared memory comm. on HP machines, possible?
Organization: EDF-Direction des Etudes et Recherches FRANCE
Date: 23 Jun 1994 08:01:20 GMT
Message-ID: <2ubfgg$mcl@edf3.der.edf.fr>

In article <sphruksa.23.00129ACF@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu>, sphruksa@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu (Suwat Phruksawan) writes:
|> Hi,
|>        Is there any way to make the local (same host) communications between 
|> tasks use shared memory on the HP machines (or any machines that support 
|> shared memory)?
|> 
|>       I understand that PVM3.3 doesn't support shared memory comm. for these 
|> uniprocessor machines.  But I think it would be much more efficient if we 
|> could have shared memory comm. in the project that my friends and I are 
|> working on.
|> 

I think I have the same sort of project as you, so I would be interested in
a version of PVM supporting shared memory on uniprocessor machines
like SPARC10 or CRAY C90.

Thanks in advance for any information.

Christian Caremoli
email : Christian.Caremoli@der.edf.fr

 

