Runs on Several Platforms
Architectures
- Intel x86, SGI R10000, Sparc Stations, DEC Alphas, IBM SP2’s(currently being ported to)
...and Operating Systems
- Linux, SGI IRIX, AIX, OSF/1
Easy to port to new Architecture/O.S.
- Leverages off of existing kernel-threads (e.g. Pthreads, sproc(SGI), clone (Linux))
- Small machine-dependent module