Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: Hubert Ertl <ertl@genias.de>
Subject: Re: news from MPI Software Technology, Inc.
Organization: GENIAS Internet
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 10:46:53 +0100
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Victor Eijkhout wrote:

> Peter Sanders <sanders@mpi-sb.mpg.de> writes:
>
> > I appreciate useful product announcements.
> > But this one sounds like too much marketing hype to me.
> >
> > If you want to make a good impression you should rather come out with
> > performance data.
>
> Oh, given how poor NT is compared to Unix, having MPI _at_all_ is
> quite an achievement. Is this the first ever MPI on NT?
>

Nevertheless, there are some more MPI implementations for NT
and even a preliminary, but detailed performance report from
Mark Baker and  Geoffrey Fox on winMPICH, WMPI and FM-MPI..

Available online at:

http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/~mab/Papers/PC-NOW/


Hubert
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