Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: Erik Demaine <eddemain@daisy.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: does mpi provide for a "Spawn Task" function?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:25:39 GMT
Message-ID: <EqJEyr.3nB@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>

Shane Adams <adamsch1@best.com> wrote:
: Similar to pvm possibly?

MPI-1 doesn't: all n tasks start up in the beginning.

MPI-2 does (see the standard on http://www.mpi-forum.org/), but there aren't
many implementations.  Fortunately, LAM (a free implementation of MPI) has
support for (essentially) the process spawning part of MPI-2.  Take a look
at their web page.

    http://www.osc.edu/lam.html

Erik
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