[gmx-users] PVM?

[Erik Lindahl]

wnoon at rice.edu wrote:

>Hi,
>   does gromacs 3.1 support PVM?
> Thanks, Will Noon
>
Not anymore. We used to support it, but PVM is outdated and not really 
developed anymore, so now we only use MPI.


As an example: On both IBM and SGI supercomputers, the PVM libraries are 
just written as MPI applications that
introduce extra overhead in the communication.

Cheers,

Erik