PVM 3 beyond network computing
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States). Mathematical Sciences Section
PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a byproduct of the heterogeneous network research project going on at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee. It is a software package that permits a user defined collection of serial, parallel, and vector computers to appear as one large distributed memory computer. PVM`s popularity is quickly making it the worldwide de facto standard for distributed computing. Applications, which can be written in FORTRAN or C, can be parallelized by using simple message-passing constructs common to most distributed-memory computers. By sending and receiving messages, subtasks of an application can cooperative to solve a problem in parallel. This paper describes the features of the latest release of PVM (version 3.1) and explains the major new research areas they are beginning to explore in heterogeneous network computing. The new features of PVM version 3 open many new opportunities to go beyond simple network computing, but several technical and social issues must be addressed before one can make the next big leap in distributed computing.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 10184567
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9310161--2; ON: DE94019115
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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