PVM: Experiences, current status and future direction

Conference · Thu Dec 30 23:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:46270

Beguelin, A ^[1]; Dongarra, J ^[2]; Geist, A ^[3]; Manchek, R ^[2]; Otto, S; Walpole, J ^[4]

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1. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States). School of Computer Science
2. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Computer Science
3. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States). Mathematical Sciences Section
4. Oregon Graduate Inst., Portland, OR (United States). Computer Science Dept.

While hardware multiprocessors can frequently address the computational requirements of these high-performance applications, there are a number of integration aspects to concurrent computing that are not adequately addressed when conventional parallel processors are used to solve these problems. The PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) software package provides the software infrastructure for programming heterogeneous networks. PVM provides mechanisms for configuring a virtual machine on a network, initializing processes on this network and communicating among these processes. PVM is a lightweight package intended for user installation. Nearly any Unix or Unix-like machine can be used as a processor in a virtual machine as long as the user has an account on the machine and it is accessible over a network. The authors discuss PVM, its applications, status and future.

• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 46270
• Report Number(s): CONF-931115--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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