Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: fleiner@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Claudio Fleiner)
Subject: Active Message/Thread Library for shared memory ready for betatesting
Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Date: 18 Apr 1995 20:28:07 GMT
Message-ID: <3nlii6$i8p@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

At ICSI we are currently working on an implementation of pSather 1.0, a
parallel version of Sather. The first version should run on Solaris and
Sun Multiprocessor machines. We have now implemented a  low level support
library which implements an active message and thread interface among
different processes on one computer.

The library has been tested under Solaris 2.4, SunOS 4.1.3 and 
Linux 1.1.59 and 1.2.4. 

If you are interested in beta testing this library and/or porting it
to another architecture so that pSather would run on your computer too,
send an email to fleiner@icsi.berkeley.edu. Note that there is already some
limited support of pSather in the upcoming 1.0.6 release, but this
pSather implementation does not use the active message library described 
here.           

Here an extract of the README file:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

          The Active Message Interface for Shared Memory Machines

                       Copyright (C) 1995 ICSI 

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has supported the development
of this software. Their support is gratefully acknowledged.

This library implements the Active Message Interface between different
processes with shared memory, like the IPC interface offered by most Unix
versions. It has been tested on SunOS 4, Solaris 2.4 and Linux 1.1.59 and
1.2.4, but it will probably run on other systems as well.  If the thread
support option is used to compile the library, it will also include
functions to start threads on other processes, use locks and semaphores and
send signals to threads on other processes.

A description of the active message interface can be found on
HTTP://now.cs.berkeley.edu/active_messages.html

Please send questions and bug reports to fleiner@icsi.berkeley.edu

-- 
Claudio Fleiner        fleiner@icsi.berkeley.edu
International Computer Science Institute, 1947 Center Street, Berkeley
Tel: (510) 643-9153,   Fax: (510) 643-7684

