From: H}kan Millroth <hakanm@erix.ericsson.se>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Thread safe message passing library
Date: 20 Dec 1998 06:46:21 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB, Stockholm, Sweden
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Christian v. Mueffling (cvm@aiss.de) wrote:
> I'm looking for a message passing library that is thread save and a=
lso
> able to create processes dynamically. IMHO PVM is not thread save, =
MPI
> and p4 can only create processes at startup time.

Erlang is a thread-safe message passing system which allows dynamic
process creation (it also contains lots of other goodies for
distributed programming).  Runs on Linux, other Unices, Windows.  Has
been commercially battle-tested for several years, but is now release=
d
as open source: http://www.erlang.org

H=E5kan Millroth
Ericsson Software Architecture Lab

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