Re: Parallel SWARM

[Theodore C. Belding]

MPI might be a better choice than PVM, since it includes most of PVM's
features. http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/index.html

As far as the goals of the Swarm community in general are concerned, good
documentation should be a higher priority than parallel Swarm.
-Ted

At 11:57 AM -0400 8/7/97, Bill wrote:
>Given the lack of directives in Objective-C for parallelism, potential
>parallell Swarmers might want to check out using PVM with Tcl and Tk. Links
>for PVM and associated tools available at http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm.
>
>There is work on AgentTcl available at http://www.cs-dartmouth.edu/~agent.
>AgentTcl allocates tasks across machines (CPUs?). I am looking at using
>AgentTcl for use on HP/Convex MetaSystem at the University of Kentucky.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Bill Paterson
>College of Business and Economics
>School of Management
>University of Kentucky
>
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Ted Belding                               address@hidden
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