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Last update : 05/08/2005

AdCommunications - advanced communication toolbox for parallel programming

### Description

This the beta version of the Advanced Communications Toolbox (ACT).

This toolbox is based on existing libraries, such as

PVM - Parallel Vitual Machine

PBLAS - Message Passing Library dedicated to Matrix

ScaLapack - Parallel linear algebra Library

ACT manage remote executions of softwares and allow efficient exchanges of messages between those softwares. It offers the possibility to exploit numerous machines on a network, as a virtual computer, by creating a distributed group of independent softwares.