From: Markus Fischer Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm Subject: Re: Is PVM development dead? Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:09:18 +0100 Organization: University of Mannheim Message-Id: <36F632EE.5D780E73@mufasa.informatik.uni-mannheim.de> References: <36F2689D.BC777CF2@postech.ac.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.parallel.pvm:8179 Hi, it is not but has a new name: HARNESS markus Rob Lahaye wrote: > Hi all, > > When I posted a question what I should do as a newbie to > parallel computing: use PVM or MPI, > most replies pointed out the following: > > 1) PVM is simpler to use for a newbie > (though this was strongly denied by MPI users) > > 2) PVM is finished and won't be improved in the future anymore > its development has stopped > MPI development is blooming : MPI is the future. > > Are there any GOOD reasons to use PVM? > > My only good reason, so far, is that at least installing PVM > on several different platforms was a piece of cake. > MPI installation lead to difficult compiletime errors on several > platforms. > > My main question here is: > > Is it true that PVM development has stopped? > What about that new release 3.4? > > Are there still people out there who seriously work on the development > of PVM? If yes, what are those people talking about, who say that > PVM is finished, dead...... > > Thanks for your comments, > > Rob. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dipl. Inf. Markus Fischer Tel.: +49 621 292-1621 University of Mannheim Fax: +49 621 292-5597 Computer Architecture email:mfischer@mufasa.informatik.uni-mannheim.de B6, 26 68159 Mannheim