From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4033D2CF.3030208@unm.edu> From: James Horey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] parallel programming in Plan 9 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:02:07 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb53db10-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hi, Does someone mind explaining to me the advantages of using Plan 9 to write/run parallel programs over say writing a "traditional" parallel program using MPI? I read several things mentioning the higher abstraction that private namespaces provide over explicit message passing, but frankly I am not sure how to apply that idea efficiently to remove explicit message passing. For instance, what would efficiently replace MPI_Reduce? Also, I've briefly read something about Alef, but there doesn't seem to be much talk about it. Is that language still actively used in this community? Perhaps my brain isn't cooperating with me today, so I would appreciate any help. Thanks! -James Horey