On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Sebastian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i didn't find any info on your homepage what LAM means, i know that
> MPI
> stands for Message Passing Interface, but what origin has LAM?
LAM originally stood for Local Area Multicomputer, a term that made a
lot more sense when there were transputers and strange machines like
that. Before LAM became the runtime system for the LAM/MPI
implementation of the MPI standard, it had served time as an
operating system for transputers, a system for making workstations
look like a transputer, and any other odd job people could think of.
These days, the meaning of LAM has largely been deprecated, as the
code that supported all the fun multicomputer/transputer features is
largely gone. So LAM is just a (fairly meaningless) name for a
wonderful MPI implementation ;).
Hope this helps,
Brian
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Brian Barrett
LAM/MPI developer and all around nice guy
Have a LAM/MPI day: http://www.lam-mpi.org/
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