Re: Parallel program to calculate PI

> On 13 May, 15:28, Prime Mover <eple...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Let me just be a bit more specific:
>
> > My (understading) problem starts in the line 5 of the pseudo-code:
> > 5. find out if I am MASTER or WORKER
>
> > How would I specificy a "worker"? Would that be another computer?
> > If yes, how can I access this remote computer in the calculations, in
> > C language?
> > If yes, it means that I have to have a LAN or something to perform
> > tests?
>
> > I have found that there are some libraries such as OMP or MPI that
> > could be
> > used, but I'd like to know if there is a more "raw" way of doing this
> > first.
>
> Standard C has no built-in sup****t for parallel processing so an
> answer
> to the question "find out if I am MASTER or WORKER" falls outside
> standard C which is what's topical here. I have no idea what kind of
> hardware set-up and extensions to C can be used to tackle numerically
> intensive parallel algorithms. Perhaps others here have the relevant
> experience. Searching Google groups for *parallel* I found
> comp.parallel.mpi and comp.parallel.pvm where I'm guessing you might
> get more useful advice than here.

There's also comp.parallel