p4

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

P4

   A {macro}/subroutine package for parallel programming by Rusty
   Lusk <[email protected]>.  P4 uses {monitors} on shared
   memory machines and message passing on distributed memory
   machines.  It is implemented as a subroutine library for {C}
   and {Fortran}.  An enhancement of the "Argonne macros",
   {PARMACS}.

   (ftp://info.mcs.anl.gov/pub/p4t1.2.tar.Z).  E-mail:
   <[email protected]>.