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-rw-r--r-- | parallel/glunix/DESCR | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | parallel/mpi-ch/DESCR | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | parallel/pvm3/DESCR | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | parallel/pvm3/MESSAGE | 6 |
4 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/parallel/glunix/DESCR b/parallel/glunix/DESCR index a5c02920fae..d835d22910a 100644 --- a/parallel/glunix/DESCR +++ b/parallel/glunix/DESCR @@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ and Networks of Workstations (NOWs). Relative to traditional MPPs, a NOW offers the potential for better cost-effectiveness, increased scalability, and decreased hardware and software development time. The main differentiating point between NOWs and MPPs will soon be the operating -system software. +system software. Our system, called GLUnix, is built as a layer on top of existing operating systems. This strategy makes the system quickly portable, tracks vendor software upgrades, and reduces development time. Our work is an example of "higher-order" systems research where new systems can be built quickly by mapping new services onto the functionality provided by the -layer beneath. +layer beneath. see: http://now.cs.berkeley.edu diff --git a/parallel/mpi-ch/DESCR b/parallel/mpi-ch/DESCR index 65ad63b2d3a..66ff80a3dfc 100644 --- a/parallel/mpi-ch/DESCR +++ b/parallel/mpi-ch/DESCR @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ MPICH is a freely available, portable implementation of MPI, the new -Standard for message-passing libraries. +Standard for message-passing libraries. Documentation on installing and using MPICH is available, as well as -manual pages for the routines and commands. +manual pages for the routines and commands. diff --git a/parallel/pvm3/DESCR b/parallel/pvm3/DESCR index 2aee3f6b023..1486abae013 100644 --- a/parallel/pvm3/DESCR +++ b/parallel/pvm3/DESCR @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a portable message-passing programming system, designed to link separate host machines to form a ``virtual -machine'' which is a single, manageable computing resource. +machine'' which is a single, manageable computing resource. The virtual machine can be composed of hosts of varying types, in physically remote locations. PVM applications can be composed of any number of separate processes, or components, written in a mixture of C, C++ and Fortran. The system is portable to a wide variety of architectures, including workstations, multiprocessors, supercomputers and -PCs. +PCs. PVM is a byproduct of ongoing research at several institutions, and is -made available to the public free of charge. +made available to the public free of charge. diff --git a/parallel/pvm3/MESSAGE b/parallel/pvm3/MESSAGE index 3cc0ebbd286..7c90d844c51 100644 --- a/parallel/pvm3/MESSAGE +++ b/parallel/pvm3/MESSAGE @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ =========================================================================== -$NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.2 2002/09/24 12:30:30 wiz Exp $ +$NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.3 2003/05/06 17:42:23 jmmv Exp $ You must set the environment variable PVM_ROOT to ${PREFIX}/pvm3 in your -startup files (.cshrc, .profile) on all machines in the cluster. In -addition, you may want to add the lines contained in +startup files (.cshrc, .profile) on all machines in the cluster. In +addition, you may want to add the lines contained in ${PREFIX}/pvm3/lib/cshrc.stub to the system .cshrc. You can specify each host's run path in your pvmhosts file like so: |