Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: vernard@cc.gatech.edu (Vernard C. Martin)
Subject: Re: Multiple threads and PVM
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: 8 Sep 1994 00:47:28 -0400
Message-ID: <34m510$e9j@heron.cc.gatech.edu>

youngman@signal.dra.hmg.gb (neil youngman) wrote:
>I am porting some software written for Transputers to Solaris 2.3 and PVM.  
>
>The original code involves parallel communication with a number of different
>processes.  Ideally I would use multiple threads to implement this but PVM 
>does not appear to support multiple threads.  
>
>Has anyone out there tried to use PVM with multiple threads or modify it to
>support multiple threads?

I use PVM with a user level threads package called C-threads that is an
implementation of the CMU C-Threads package that comes with Mach. I've had
no major problems as long as you remember that the PVM library is not
particuarly threads safe to begin with.  I see no reason why it shouldn't
work with any user level threads package in general either.

hope this helps
V
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