From: "Alexander N. Andreyev" <alexander@vvv.srcc.msu.su>
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Subject: Re: Thread-safe MPI for linux?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:40:44 +0400
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I think that if you obey to call MPI routines from only one thread inside
each MPI process, it'll be safe enough.
Am I right?

Full thread safety, which enables you to call MPI from different threads
concurently, isn't supported by MPICH or LAM.

> Does anyone know of a thread-safe implementation of MPI for Linux? I
> know some vendor implementations (SGI, HP,...) claim to be thread-safe,
> but I have not heard of any for Linux.

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