Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi,comp.parallel.pvm
From: Kamran Karimi <kamran@wallybox.cei.net>
Subject: Re: Why explicit message passing??
Organization: World Lynx, Inc.
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:34:24 +0000
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I agree that learning a new programming model is always difficult. Object
Oriented Programming is gaining in popularity, so this problem will be
resolved automatically in a few years.

Have you considered Distributed Shared Memory (DSM)? This is something all
ordinary programmers can easily use, because it simulates shared memory
over a network. Here there is no need to explicitly transfer data to other
computers. This is much easier to learn and implement than explicit
message passing.

Please visit http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc for an example.

-Kamran