From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 19 7:39:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 640BD37B698 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:39:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0JFcQD24460; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:38:26 -0800 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:38:26 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: "Russell L. Carter" Cc: Wes Peters , Uwe Pierau , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clustering FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010119073826.A30053@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010119054115.EA8F66A@pinyon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010119054115.EA8F66A@pinyon.org>; from rcarter@pinyon.org on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:41:15PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:41:15PM -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: > Nowadays, you'd want to "globus ify" things, rather than > use use PVM. For those who want a simple, stupid way to do this, making an MPI application is a convenient first step. MPI is pretty similar to PVM except that I don't know of anyone in the high performance computing community that still uses PVM for new applications (I'm sure they exist, but they are not exactly common.) For some reason the Open Source community still has this bizare idea that PVM is the way to go. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message