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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Parallel programing in Linux Cluster using Ada95
Date: 1999/01/19
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In article <1999Jan19.111718.1@eisner>,
  Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
> In article <780mng$mkj$1@news-2.news.gte.net>, "Joe L.
Vojir" <jlvojir1@gte.net> writes:
> > Hi,
> >     I was wondering if I use the task routines in the
> > Ada95 programming
> > language will I be able to utlize power of our beowolf
> > Linux cluster.  This
> > question is just to decide if I should learn the
> > message passing routines or
> > if I can use Ada's built-in paralizing capability and
> > both would work
> > equally.

Larry answers about tasking, and then talks about
parellization, but I think that is going in the wrong
direction. More interesting is to look at using remote
procedure call structures, using the facilities of the
DSA (Annex E of the RM: Distributed Systems). These are
fully implemented in GNAT.

Robert Dewar

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