PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine

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PVM allows you to program a heterogeneous network of machines as a single distributed memory parallel machine. The software is very portable and is a de facto standard for parallel programming in a heterogenous network environment.

• http://hebe.nectar.cs.cmu.edu:8001/
• http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/Groups/pvm.html
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Current PVM News:

• PVM 3.3.3 Listing of new features found in PVM 3.3.3
• PVM News Current articles from comp.parallel.pvm.

PVM Documentation/Source Code:

• Project Overview A short writeup. (Postscript--Last updated 2/15/93.)
• Netlib Documentation Downloadable documentation and source code.
• PVM FAQ (Plain text)
• PVM Technical FAQ (Plain text)
• PVM 3.3 User's Guide and Reference Manual (Postscript)
• PVM 3.3 Quick Reference Card (Postscript)
• PVM 3.2 Listing of new features found in PVM 3.2.
• PVM man pages Man pages.

PVM Programming:

• Introduction Introduction to programming with PVM.
• Descriptions and Source Code for the PVM examples.
• Xab A PVM monitoring tool.

Related information:

• Project Members
• New PVM Book
• Conferences, workshops, and journals
• Published Papers
• Further Sources of Information Links to many related software packages.