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Re: MPI and parallel processing



On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 02:21:20PM +0200, Lukasz Walewski wrote:

> Has anyone any experiences with parallel programming under Debian?

Yes :-) .  There's a mailing list debian-beowulf@lists.debian.org about
this sort of thing (subscribe in the usual fashion) which will probably
be better able to answer questions on this topic.

> I've been using Message Passing Interface under SGI/Irix;
> the Intel clone of this library is MPIH.
> Is there a .deb version of it ?

There are two free MPI implementations I know about, called MPICH and LAM.
Both are packaged for Debian and are in Potato, along with a number of
libraries for them.  LAM is generally regarded as the faster of the two.

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