what architecture was MPI and PVM 1st designed for?

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 16:34, Jayne Heger wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Coulld anyone tell me what computer architecture MPI and PVM were
first 
> designed for./written on.
> Thanks,
> 

Jayne,
there is a nice discussion on PVM and MPI in chapter 11 of
Dowd and Severances Oreilly bok on High Performance Computing.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hpc2/

By the way, it was nice to hear that your cluster is flying.
(Hmmm.... I suppose Beowulves howl really).