On Feb 28, 2006, at 2:09 AM, Yigong Liu wrote:
Although bearing the same name of message passing, Channel framework is for application domains quite different from those targeted by MPI/PVM. Channel is for developing message passing/event dispatching systems in distributed embedded systems, desktop and enterprise applications. During my last eight years of employment, i worked on various telecom switches/routers, and distributed enterprise applications; designed and implemented 3 small proprietary message passing systems. Later i found that they all share a common set of primitives.
Very interesting. I expected that PVM/MPI was in a different message- passing "space" than what you were proposing, but thought I should ask nonetheless. I still hope to get a chance to look at Channel in- depth, but for now I'll say this: don't mangle your design to fit PVM/ MPI. If they fit well, great; if not, that's fine too. Doug