Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: aorndorff@nhtsa.dot.gov (Andrew Orndorff)
Subject: Re: PVM under Windows?
Organization: NHTSA R&D, U.S. Dept. of Transportation
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 12:31:27 GMT
Message-ID: <aorndorff.268.2E64781E@nhtsa.dot.gov>

In article <gmj-290894142102@windward.pha.jhu.edu> gmj@crab.pha.jhu.edu (Geir Magnusson) writes:
>From: gmj@crab.pha.jhu.edu (Geir Magnusson)
>Subject: Re: PVM under Windows?
>Date: 29 Aug 1994 18:15:34 GMT

>In article <aorndorff.257.2E59EAE3@nhtsa.dot.gov>, aorndorff@nhtsa.dot.gov
>(Andrew Orndorff) wrote:

>[big snip]


>Why the insistance of using something as crummy and slow as Win3.11?  Why
>not run a minimal implementation of Linux on a small partition and use
>that?  It's also free...

>(Or did someone suggest this already?)

No one has said that Windows is an ideal solution, just that it's _possible_.

In corporate and gov't environments, you probably (almost guaranteed) will not
find any support for Linux - it's nearly unsupportable in networks of
hundreds or thousands of machines, and it's a completely different environment
to train users to.

If that sort of network has computational needs that can be filled by
using the existing CPU's, i.e. PC's running Windows and PVM/Windows, with 
littlle or no additional investment, then that could be very attractive.

Whatever...

Drew

Andrew Orndorff
NHTSA Data Center
Internet: aorndorff@nhtsa.dot.gov

