Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@apollo.hp.com (Weicheng Jiang)
Subject: Re: public domain PVM on MPPs
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 14:56:17 GMT
Message-ID: <DI705t.1wA@apollo.hp.com>

In article <48ctuk$7ja@bone.think.com> ambati@Think.COM (Ashok Ambati) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I need some information on the implementation of message-passing for public
>domain PVM on the MPPs such as the SP2, for instance. What I need to know is
>whether the intra-MPP message-passing is implemented using the native
>messaging on those systems or is TCP/IP based?

Ashok,

    PVM uses the native message-passing library on the Paragon, SP2, and CM5.
    On the SP2 it uses MPI-F instead of MPL, but I consider MPI-F to be native
    since it is implemented at the same level as MPL and offers similar 
    performance.

-Weicheng

