[gmx-users] PVM?

Erik Lindahl lindahl at stanford.edu
Sat Oct 5 04:27:11 CEST 2002


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 We used to support it, but PVM is outdated and not really 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







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