Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl,comp.parallel.pvm
From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Tkpvm version 1.1 available
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. +1 713 968 5800
Date: 16 Dec 1996 12:40:06 -0600
Message-ID: <594526$r15@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>

In article <58his0$80v@news.ziplink.net>,
Mikhail Teterin <mi@ALDAN.zipnet.net> wrote:
>Honorable Jan Nijtmans:
>
>=Tcl/Tk-users
>=     PVM is a library for controlling a virtual parallel machine which
>=     consists of any number of hosts. Processes can spawn and kill each
>=     other and communicate through a pvm-channel. It can be compared with
>=     the Tk 'send' command, only it works with sockets. Therefore it runs
>=     without Tk (X11), and the processes can use different displays and run
>=     on different hosts. In addition, pvmsh takes control of the event loop
>=     from Tcl, while pvmwish does the same with Tk.
>
>Does it eliminate a need in TCL-DP?
			.
			.
			.
No.  For example, Tcl-DP is generally more
convenient for those writing a Tcl-coded
applications, either client or server, to
connect to a legacy socket application.
Perhaps PVM has the potential to supplant
socket programming, but it's definitely at
a higher level, and, for the future I fore-
see, there will be occasions to write in
terms of the sockets themselves.
-- 

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