From: hernani@dei.uc.pt (Hernani Pedroso)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: Re: Questions on Win32 mpi
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 00:24:16 GMT
Organization: Dependable Systems Group - University of Coimbra
Message-Id: <367064cb.51926486@news.dei.uc.pt>
References: <74mpgo$pkv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
Reply-To: wmpi@dei.uc.pt


On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 21:19:23 GMT, ahmed_samman@yahoo.com wrote:

>Hi, I'm an engineering student, recently i started using the Win32MPI and i
>want some information about it, and generally the MPI.
>
>1- What is meant by ROMIO,how it can be used,and what for? 

ROMIO is an implementation of the Parallel I/O chapter of the MPI-2 standard.
This implementation is based on the one distributed within MPICH 1.1.1.

>2- Can i make
>communication between a MPI application on a PC and another one on a SUN
>workstation?

With, WMPI is possible is you have MPICH 1.1.1 running on the Sun system. Please
see the WMPI documentation for details.

> 3- What software i need and where i can get it?

You need WMPI: http://dsg.dei.uc.pt/wmpi

and MPICH: http://www-c.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/

> 4- Is there on
>the internet some demos,examples,and toutorials on the Win32MPI, where can i
>get them?

The best documentation about WMPI is distributed with the package, if you have
any question, please contact wmpi@dei.uc.pt.

Hernani Pedroso

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WMPI Developer Team Member