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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Distributed Computing in Ada
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Allison Beh wrote:

> To do distributed computing in Ada, what are the software components
> needed?

An Ada compiler supporting annex E should be enough.  Some versions of
GCC (GNAT) can supposedly do the job.  (I've never tried myself.)

> Are libflorist and libpvm necessary? What about in Mac OS X
> platform? Is Bonjour needed? Much appreciated if someone can kindly
> shed some light on it. Thanks in advance.

You could roll your own solution using sockets (for example using
Ada_Sockets or GNAT.Sockets) or a distributed programming API (such as
MPI).

Greetings,

Jacob
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