Re: how to do multiprocessor programming

[Mark Hahn]

> use MPICH 
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/
> or PVM
> http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html

which are good choices mostly for shared-nothing clusters.
the question was about SMP programming, for which the right choice
is normally using posix threads.  of course, there are higher-level
systems such as the tuple-space abstractions, but they are often
much less efficient.