Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: js9s@uvahew.phys.Virginia.EDU (jg_sun)
Subject: paragon, what a system!
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 05:56:22 GMT
Message-ID: <JS9S.94Jul29015623@uvahew.phys.Virginia.EDU>


Thanks to  many people, now I can start pvm on paragon now, and that
opened a whole can of warm.

My application has been run on network of SGI, SUN, Ultrix, AIX, with
easy setup and  start running after I compile it couple
of times to make some minor adjustment for different compilers. However,
it is a MAJOR hack to port the program to the paragon. The C compiler
is soooo bugy, I have to use gcc to get some of the file compiled
right. However, because my program mix fortran and C, I have to
use native compilers.  Not only the front end is sloooooow, but
also the ipd debuger is a brain dead, different sequences of 
commands will give different results, for instance.   Man, what
a pain.

I wish I could get 100 workstations instead of this one sigle
piece of  a million dollar shit.

j.g.

