Last Wednesday, Dr. Seyfarth of Department of Computer Science and Atatistics gave us a seminar on Glenda -- a parallel prgramming tool. The tool was installed and maintained by Dr. Seyfarth and his assistant Mr. Chuck Fleming.

Glenda is being developed to provide the capabilities of Linda (Linda is a registered trademark of Scientific Computing Associates), a group of functions capable of utilizing multiple processors which allows the user to more easily program in parallel. Named Glenda, its model was setup to closely parallel that of Linda - with a few exceptions. Glenda is built utilizing Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM 3.x) software system to provide the underlying communications. It supports most of the Linda operations with a few added capabilities to utilize PVM more fully.

Glenda 0.91 was funded in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the USM Center for Ocean and Atmospheric Modeling.

Dr. Seyfarth also addressed the difference between the system Glenda and system Linda. Then he discussed the advantage of the Glenda.

• cgpp The cg preprocessor code
• doc Documentation
• examples Examples of cg code
• include Include files for gts and examples
• gts Tuple server code