Parallel Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library for AIX Version 2 Release 3: Guide and Reference

Changes for Parallel ESSL Version 2 Release 1.1

Parallel ESSL for AIX provides distinct libraries for AIX 4.2.1 and AIX 4.3.2:

• The AIX 4.2.1 Parallel ESSL Thread-Tolerant POWER2 Library and the Parallel ESSL SMP Library were built using the pthreads draft 7 library supplied on AIX 4.2.1. This is the same as Parallel ESSL 2.1.
• The AIX 4.3.2 Parallel ESSL Thread-Tolerant POWER2 Library and the Parallel ESSL SMP Library were built using the pthreads library that conforms to the IEEE POSIX 1003.1-1996 specification supplied on AIX 4.3.