From: Lars Rzymianowicz Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi Subject: Re: MPI or PVM !!! Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:21:57 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Computer Engineering, University of Mannheim, Germany Message-Id: <36F5FDA5.C2F4F475@mufasa.informatik.uni-mannheim.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.parallel.mpi:4792 "Y. S. Ho" wrote: > I hear about PVM and MPI today, > I want to know how to setup it ! > What do I need ? Have a look at their web pages at MPI: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/index.html PVM: http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html There you'll find a lot of info. > And which one is better ? difficult to answer. There are some comparisons on the web pages, i think. > I am using Windows 98 (Two PC)! > Can I setup them ? There are Win32 implementations of both, MPI and PVM. > And I want to know what type of network do I need ! > LAN or ... ? The fastest you can get ;-) > I don't have any money to build the network ! Ok, so it's Ethernet. > Please teach me step by step ! There are very good manuals around. If you have specific questions, you can ask them here. Have fun, Lars -- Homepage: http://mufasa.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/lsra/persons/lars/