Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,alt.winsock
From: jam@uni-paderborn.de (Jan (not Jam) Wegner)
Subject: Re: [Q]: Messagepassing pvm ->pc
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
Date: 15 Sep 1994 15:29:14 GMT
Message-ID: <359p8a$ria@news.uni-paderborn.de>

Dear netters,

Crispin Cowan (crispin@csd.uwo.ca), a kind soul replied personaly by mail
and wrote:

|>The major result from that discussion is that no one has done it, and
|>it would be difficult (at best) to try to do it.  The useful
|>suggestions included:
|>
|>-using an OS that isn't quite so brain-dead as Windows, and can support
|> PVM, such as Linux, NetBSD, or OS/2

What about using Winsockets, or another TCP/IP-'clone', what about a tcp/ip
connection annyway?

|>-just open a window on your Windows box and log in to a real computer

I have to/must/ought to do it the other way round. The PC has to do some
work, which is controlled/initiated by a workstation (Sun, see below).

|>-don't use PVM

;-x

|>For various reasons, none of these suggestions were feasible for the
|>original poster asking the question.
|>

So for me. I want to use pvm, because it makes IPC so easy to me, and those 
who have worked on IPC on system-level (vfork(), spawn(), pwait() ...)
probably know what I mean. Last but not least it's a part of my 
thesis/diploma. 

The major reason why we *ought to* use a PC/Window-plattform is, that
we have to connect hardware via the at-bus, and control is done by the
PC and, thats the point probably, the control is written in turbo-pascal,
wich is neither available on SunOS (you guessed that ...), nor on 
OS/2-plattform ( which is astonishing, as i think). On the other hand,
we use a distributed OODBMS, which is to large for the PC. So a communication-
Interface Workstation -> PC (and vize versa) would be of great use.

So if there are usefull sugestions out there in the net, 
let me know.

advTHANXance

jan.

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