Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: Re: PVM under Windows?
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 15:24:06 GMT
Message-ID: <P7VRBA9Q@math.fu-berlin.de>

bwh@inf.rl.ac.uk (Brian Henderson) writes:

: Without pre-emptive scheduling how can one access the available cycles on 
: nearby PC's without totally thrashing the machine. Under UNIX PVM tasks
: co-exist in a multi-tasking environment. WINDOWS is esoterically single-task
: orientated so:

: Brian W. Henderson		    *	UK JANET: bwh@uk.ac.rl.inf
: Parallel Processing Group	    *	UUCP:	  ..!mcsun!ukc!rlinf!bwh

You are mixing up parallel with distributed computing. Although often 
usefully linked together, it's not the same at all. So I think a 
system for distribution and communication (which PVM is) can still 
be useful in certain cases even where support for parallel computing 
might be poor.

Thomas Wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de

