Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.parallel
From: jnc@pip.fpms.ac.be (Jean-Noel Colin)
Subject: Re: Is PVM Thread Safe?
Organization: Faculte Polytechnique de Mons
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 05:59:42 GMT
Message-ID: <3tfu4e$1mr@fu-berlin.de>

: In the TPVM system which I helped develop, we retained the above
: buffer management API style using the following simple solution:

: 	o pvm_initsend, pvm_pk*, pvm_upk*, are replaced by 
: 	  equivalent tpvm versions (same type signatures and
: 	  functionality).

: 	o The active send and receive buffers are part of 
: 	  a running thread's "state." The tpvm buffer management
: 	  routines ensure that operations (e.g. sends, packs, etc.)
: 	  are applied to the appropriate active buffer for the
: 	  calling thread.

Hi, 

as I read this news message about distributed programming with 
threads, I would like to introduce the system I have developed 
which is called DTMS. It is a distributed programming environment
that makes use of lightweight processes instead of OS processes
to support concurrent tasks. Each task has a mailbox associated
with it that is used to send and receive message. 
DTMS (Distributed Tasks Management System) also provides a global
load balancing mechanism that can be paraterized according to the
needs of the application.

If you would like more information, don't hesitate to contact me.

Jean-Noel
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