Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: fischer@rudolph.cs.utk.edu (Markus Fischer)
Subject: Re: Windows users are becoming desperate!
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 14 Apr 1996 03:34:39 GMT
Message-ID: <4kprofINN9l@CS.UTK.EDU>


We had a PVM-Meeting on Friday.

Look out for an announcement on Wednesday.
Topic will be: Looking for alpha-testers 

Just a few days ... :-)

Markus

Tudor Buican (tudor@workhorse.timb.com) wrote:
: It just struck me that virtually all the postings 
: that have to do with PVM for Windows are cries for 
: help from people mystified by a non-standard, 
: temperamental, undocumented and TOTALLY 
: unsupported port, i.e. WPVM. Having myself refused 
: to give up and shoot my monitor, I came up with a 
: few pieces of advice for would-be WPVM users, which 
: I posted to this newsgroup. However, I am the first 
: to admit that my advice sounded more like mystical 
: incantations than installation and configuration 
: instructions. 

: The fact that there are people who still insist on 
: using WPVM simply shows how badly needed a good, 
: honest-to-God Windows port of PVM really is! I know 
: of one guy who is working on such a port, and he 
: seems to be doing it the right way. Markus, will 
: you finish your port and make it available to the 
: rest of us, please? After all, we, too, would like 
: to work on PVM applications, rather than on fixes 
: and workarounds.

: Given the number of PCs, one could say that a good 
: Windows PVM port will contribute more to the 
: advance of high (or, at least, reasonable) 
: performance computing than ports to any other 
: operating system. For example, I am using a piece 
: of software (which shall remain unnamed) that does 
: great things but at a snail's pace. Having written 
: a PVM interface that allows me to run it 
: transparently on multiple PCs, the performance has 
: finally reached the point where this program is 
: really useful. 

: Give us a good PVM port and the PC world will never 
: be the same again!

: Tudor
: Home Supercomputing, Inc. (Just joking!)

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-- Markus

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