Overview

Multipol provides a well defined machine interface for porting to new machines. Current ports include:

• cm5: the Thinking Machine Corp. CM5, using the CMAML communication library.
• sp1/sp2: the IBM SP1/SP2, using the MPL message passing library.
• nx: the Intel Paragon, using the NX message passing library.
• sun/hp: the Sun and HP workstations (uniprocessors).
• tcp (in progress): network of homogeneous workstations, using sockets.

The sp1/sp2, nx and tcp implementations also make use the Berkeley active message layer.

The current version assumes a polling network interface.