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[Beowulf] MPI vs PVM

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Michael Will mwill at penguincomputing.com
Mon Jan 3 09:52:37 PST 2005


The short answer is: You definitely want MPI for performance reasons. 

Michael
On Monday 03 January 2005 09:07 am, Stavros E. Zogas wrote:
> Hi at all
> I want to set up a beowulf cluster for scientific purposes (In a university)
> using mainly fortran compilers.I want your help to choose between MPI and
> PVM
> Thanks in Advance
> Stavros
> 

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