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From: causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse)
Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support SMP multiprocessing?
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Andreas Klemm (andreas@klemm.gtn.com) wrote:
: In article <5ikmv3$p89@nntp1.u.washington.edu>,
: 	gah@u.washington.edu (G. Herrmannsfeldt) writes:
: > I would like to run a 4 processor SMP pentium system, and my choice
: > would be FreeBSD.  
: > 
: > Does FreeBSD support SMP?  
: > 
: > If so, is there an MPI implementation for it?

: What's MPI ?
Message Passing Interface, I guess...
Look at PVM3 (highly portable) or P4 (never tried).
PVM3 is available at Netlib (Oak ridge research center).

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