Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: mounie@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Gregory Mounie)
Subject: Re: PVM on Windows PCs?
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: 26 Aug 1994 17:24:45 GMT
Message-ID: <33l8gt$ci@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>



|> >	-it will be a lot of work (to cobble together compatible
|> >	 interfaces for signals, rsh, etc.)
|> 
|> This has been done for other platforms:  Paragon, T3D, etc.
|> 
On theses other plateforms, you do not have to figth with the system.
The most of the jobs has been done before.
Your proposal is to use Windows like a scheduler of a UNIX like system.
Ok, but you have to write all the others required parts of UNIX and 
 *it will be a lot of work*

|> >	-it will have portability problems (if compromises are made to
|> >	 help with the previous points, such as mandating calls to
|> >	 yield--ick)
|> >
|> >PVM emulates the functionality of an MPP environment by emulating the
|> >MPP facilities using UNIX facilities.  Windows is neither of these
|> 
|> Again, this is true for PVM running on workstations.  It's certainly
|> not the case for PVM running on a Paragon, T3D or under OS/2.  
|>
Do you really think that the OS of these plateforms are nearier from
DOS than from UNIX (in their basics at least, especially
process management) ?


see you on the net
Gregory

UNIX == 2.x * OS/2.x == OS.0  (a real OS).


