Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de (Eckhard Rueggeberg)
Subject: Re: PVM on Sparc10/514 or DEC 2100
Organization: DLR, Abt SM-SK
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 07:03:39 GMT
Message-ID: <Cv2wy4.4rL@dnsserv.go.dlr.de>

In article 36L@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU, wrp@dayhoff.med.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) writes:
>	Do current implementations of PVM (or p4) know how to take
>advantage of symmetric multiprocessing machines like the DEC 2100 or
>similar products from SGI and Sun?
>
>	I would like to take advantage of all 4 processors on machines
>that have them, while also working with other machines on the network.

P4 has shared memory support. For Solaris 2.3, this uses mmap and is 
extremely fast. We had VERY good experiences on SparcCenters with upto
8 CPU's, speedup was 0.81 compared to 0.73 with the MPLp on a SP1



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Eckhard R"uggeberg
eckhard@ts.go.dlr.de



