A users' guide to PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)

Technical Report · Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5386544

Beguelin, A; Dongarra, J; Geist, A; Manchek, R ^[1]; Sunderam, V ^[2]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
2. Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA (United States). Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science

This report is the PVM version 2.3 users' guide. It contains an overview of PVM and how it is installed and used. Example programs in C and Fortran are included. PVM stands for Parallel Virtual Machine. It is a software package that allows the utilization of a heterogeneous network of parallel and serial computers as a single computational resource. PVM consists of two parts: a daemon process that any user can install on a machine, and a user library that contains routines for initiating process on other machines, for communicating between processes, and synchronizing process. 1 refs., 3 figs., 3 tabs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 5386544
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-11826; ON: DE91016934
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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