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

Thr Mar 18 19:38:57 1999

Domain

Parallel Processing Tools!Communication Libraries

Keyword

message passing library; machine cluster

Name

PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)

TargetEnvironment

See http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvmArch.html

Version

3.4.0

VersionDate

March 1999

Webpage

http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/

ContactIs

PVM Help