FW: MPI cases and PVM

[Patrick Geoffray]

Daniel Kidger wrote:

> However the biggest problem with layering on top of TCPIP is the issue of
> latency.

Right, and CPU load. TCP/IP is very hungry, having a machine on its knee 
just moving data is not very usefull for something else.

Patrick

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