PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)
- Abstract
- PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software system
that enables a collection of heterogeneous computers
to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational
resource. The individual computers may be shared- or
local-memory multiprocessors, vector supercomputers,
specialized graphics engines, or scalar workstations,
that may be interconnected by a variety of networks,
such as ethernet, FDDI, etc. PVM support software executes
on each machine in a user-configurable pool, and presents
a unified, general, and powerful computational environment
of concurrent applications. User programs written in
C or Fortran are provided access to PVM through the
use of calls to PVM library routines for functions
such as process initiation, message transmission and
reception, and synchronization via barriers or rendezvous.
- DateOfInformation
- Fri Aug 21 13:40:27 1998
- Deployment Status
- http://www.nhse.org/rib/repositories/ncsa_teamA_deployment/catalog/grid.html
- Domain
- Parallel Processing Tools!Communication Libraries
- Keyword
- message passing library; machine cluster
- Name
- PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)
- TargetEnvironment
- Not Available
- Version
- 3.4
- Webpage
- http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/index.html
- ContactIs
- PVM Help
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