[Beowulf] MPI vs PVM

[Mark Hahn]

> You might also consider "Why are PVM and MPI so Different?"  by Bill
> Gropp and me in the proceedings of the 4th European PVM/MPI Users' Group
> Meeting, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1332, 1997,
> pp. 3--10.  In that paper we tried to focus on the sources of the
> implementation-independent semantic differences.

that paper and other really good stuff is here:
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/papers/archive/