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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-was.dfn.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support SMP multiprocessing? Date: 29 Apr 1997 06:46:17 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 22 Sender: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Message-ID: <5k45fp$m34$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <5ikmv3$p89@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <5k0irf$bku$2@klemm.gtn.com> <E9CKsy.KI@sphynx.fdn.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: un1i X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970409; 9000/819 HP-UX B.10.10] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39897 Philippe Causse <causse@sphynx.fdn.fr> wrote: > Andreas Klemm (andreas@klemm.gtn.com) wrote: > : In article <5ikmv3$p89@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, > : gah@u.washington.edu (G. Herrmannsfeldt) writes: > : > I would like to run a 4 processor SMP pentium system, and my choice > : > would be FreeBSD. > : > > : > Does FreeBSD support SMP? > : > > : > If so, is there an MPI implementation for it? > : What's MPI ? > Message Passing Interface, I guess... > Look at PVM3 (highly portable) or P4 (never tried). > PVM3 is available at Netlib (Oak ridge research center). There's an implementation of MPI - mpich - which can run on top of p4 and pvm too, I think. Of course, this isn't very fast. You can also add own "channel devices". Info is at http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/ Bye, Philipp