From: msingh2@Bayou.UH.EDU (Mohit Singh)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: XMPI
Date: 2 Jun 1999 23:05:04 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-Id: <7j4db0$q8q$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU>
Xref: ukc comp.parallel.mpi:5160


I want to install XMPI 2.1 from Ohio Supercomputer Centre on my IBM RS6000
machine running AIX4.3.2. I wanted to clarify a couple of things before 
doing so. Will XMPI be compatible with MPICH which I am installing on my
machine? If not will I have to download LAM and install XMPI with it? Also 
will XMPI be compatible with my AIX4.3.2? The Announce file say it'll be 
compatibe with IBM, AIX v3r2.

I want a dynamic way of seeing how the processes are communicating while 
they are executing. It is my understanding that XMPI can do so, very much
like xpvm. Am I right here? Till now I did not have java libraries and 
Tcl/Tk installed on the system properly so Totalview, upshot and nupshot
were not running with MPICH. Do these applications visualize the dynamic
communication of the processes? If so I will configure MPICH with Java etc
and forget about XMPI.

Any feedback/thoughts are highly appreciated. Please send a copy of your 
response to mohit@uh.edu. 

Thanks

Mohit Singh
Dept of Chem Engg
University of Houston
Houston TX 77204