24 Jun
2005
24 Jun
'05
6:02 a.m.
On 9150 day of my life Dirk Gerrits wrote:
P.S. I am interested in parallel computation in Common Lisp. I have created UFFI bindings for PVM library. Though I do not remember exact URL of the project :)
Is it http://lispnik.newmail.ru/lpvm/ ?
Yep.
I haven't actually used PVM (and have only dabbled in MPI) but I'll try to take a look at it.
PVM is older than MPI; key differences: PVM has simplier API, heterogeneousity and some degree of fault tolerancy.
Perhaps it is better to build own library. Though PVM has at least two advantages: 1. We don't have to implement everything from scratch. 2. There are versions of PVM for specific communication hardware (e.g. Myrinet or ATM).
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Ivan Boldyrev
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