Platforms on which PeIGS runs
PeIGS is designed for parallel and distributed memory computers with a
relatively high startup time for communication. PeIGS can also be run on
networks of workstations and shared memory computers using
Robert Harrison's
TCGMSG
message passing software or using MPI.
PeIGS uses only blocking send & receive which are implemented in a portable
way. Switching to different communications libraries, e.g., PVM,
requires modifying only a few routines.
PeIGS runs using the native message passing library on:
PeIGS currently runs using
TCGMSG on:
- IBM SP series
- Cray T3D, T3E
- KSR-2
- SGI Power Challenge, Origins, Octanes
- Network and cluster of workstations(Unix-like, linux)
PeIGS runs using MPI on:
- Intel Delta, Paragon
- IBM SP series
- SGI Power Challenge, Origins, Octanes
- Network of workstations(Unix-like)
PeIGS can be run using MPI on other machines by making a simple change
to the machine specific parts of a single Makefile.