First Presentation Outline

Intro
  - tell what topic I am working on
   - describe parallel programming
     - what it is
     - how it is used
     - advantages over supercomputing
       - cost
     - message passing vs. shared memory

Two Different Types of Message Passing Libraries (MPI and PVM)
   - Background
     - MPI - 130 functions (Saying very little)
       - MPI-1
       - MPI-2
     - PVM - 38 funtions
       - Version 2.0
       - Version 3.0
   - Portability vs Interoperability
   - Virtual Machine
     - process control
     - resource control
     - topology
   - Fault Tolerance
   - Safe Communication
   - Name Service
   - Message Handlers

My Project is ...
   - testing the explore the limitations and capabilities of the clusterized version of code