Subject: Re: Cluster of Sparcstation2's
To: Paul Dokas <dokas@cs.umn.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-smp
Date: 03/15/2001 09:43:47
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Paul Dokas wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 08:00:04PM -0800, Ross Harvey wrote:
> > > [ ... In Search of Clusters ... ]
> >
> > Start here:
> >
> > 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/parallel/README.html
> >
> > --Ross
>
> Yikes, the version of MPICH in there is *really* old.  The latest is 1.2.1.
>
> BTW, if you haven't guessed already, I'm a fan of MPI for writing parallel
> processing applications.  I does require rewriting non-parallelized code,
> but MPI is a fairly easy to work with and, when applied correctly, can
> result in pretty reasonable scaling.
>
	Maybe you migh be interested in submitting an update? :)

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