Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:20:48 06/18/02
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On June 18, 2002 at 08:21:28, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: [snip] >>Message passing (rather than SMP), of course. And I expect that time on ASCII >>red is a bit steep. > >QUESTION: As a USER of chess software, and not a professional software >developer, I am not exactly up-to-speed on SMP versus "message passing." For my >benefit, and the benefit of any other non-professionals here, could you please >explain the essential differences between these two? Also, benefits and >penalties. Thanks in advance. SMP: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/node26.html Message Passing: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/ PVM: http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html Here is a powerpoint presentation that talks about how a message passing system works: http://www.astro.su.se/~pawel/hydra/sld001.htm
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