Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: montoya@mrco.carleton.ca (Frederic Montoya)
Subject: Re: Patch #8 for PVM version 3.3 is available on Netlib
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 01:03:10 GMT
Message-ID: <DCLxLA.852@cunews.carleton.ca>

Erik Demaine (edemaine@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:
> Bob Manchek (manchek@rudolph.cs.utk.edu) wrote:
> : + added port to IBM SP-2, using MPI.

> Is this implemented on MPI or MPL?  If the former, does that mean one must
> first install e.g. MPICH?

> You may be interested to know (you might already) that IBM made their
> own implementation of PVM (not sure what version) on the SP-2 native on
> MPL.  If you're interested, you can contact me (our SP2 has PVMe).

A while ago I heard that IBM has developed a version of MPI based directly on
the native communication system of the SP2. Thus it gives full speed and does
not need MPICH.

Frederic.

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