Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!hubcap!watmath!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!jevans From: watmath!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!jevans@uunet.UU.NET (David Jevans) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: Re: Looking for a message passing package to run on the Sun Summary: University of Calgary jipc system Message-ID: <6576@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 25 Sep 89 12:20:52 GMT Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu Lines: 19 Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu The JIPC system from the University of Calgary is an inter-sun ipc system with remote creation etc. one of the features of jipc is its transparent support of non-homogenous networks (ie data type conversion if required). It is simple to get distributed programs running under jipc, and a network traffic monitor/debugger is available. A number of sites use jipc on small to large networks of suns and vaxen, including several universities and the Naval Research Lab in DC. Contact the University of Calgary dept of comp sci. -dj David Jevans University of Calgary, Department of Computer Science Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4