Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.parallel.mpi
From: tony@aurora.cs.msstate.edu (Tony Skjellum)
Subject: Re: ANNOUCE: Para++ release, C++ bindings for PVM and MPI.
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: 4 Jul 1995 15:08:25 GMT
Message-ID: <3tblh9$fb@NNTP.MsState.Edu>

MPICH has a chameleon device driver for some systems; other
implementations have device drivers that directly work to the
low-level system calls (eg, T3D, SGI).  MPI is not
inherently inefficient, as your message seems to imply.    

One should be careful to associate "heavy weight" with all abstractions.
-Tony


ZHGFJ (Serpent_Mage@MSN.COM) wrote:
: No offense, but is this not getting silly...

: Para++ is an abstraction of MPI which again is an abstraction of either 
: PVM, or Chameloen which abstracts the hardware.

: Wasnt the point of HPC high performance????

: I have been playing with MPI and have to say its nice.  I do miss the 
: security aspects though.

: Christian Gross
: CHG Informatik 


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