Libraries for Parallel and Distributed Programming

The MPICH, an implementation of MPI, the PVM library, and the Pthreads (POSIX Threads) library, are used to implement parallel programming using C++. MICO, a C++ implementation of the CORBA standard, is used to achieve distrbuted programming. The C++ Standard Library, in combination with CORBA and the Pthreads library, provides the support for agent-oriented and blackboard programming concepts that are discussed in this book.