
PVM
A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Network Parallel Computing
MIT Press
Published on 8. November 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
299 pages
978-0-262-57108-1 (ISBN)
Description
Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is the definitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer users who want to use PVM to increase the flexibility and power of their high-performance computing resources.Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is the definitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer users who want to use PVM to increase the flexibility and power of their high-performance computing resources. PVM introduces distributed computing, discusses where and how to get the PVM software, provides an overview of PVM and a tutorial on setting up and running existing programs, and introduces basic programming techniques including putting PVM in existing code. There are program examples and details on how PVM works on UNIX and multiprocessor systems, along with advanced topics (portability, debugging, improving performance) and troubleshooting.PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that enables the computer user to define a networked heterogeneous collection of serial, parallel, and vector computers to function as one large computer. It can be used as stand-alone software or as a foundation for other heterogeneous network software. PVM may be configured to contain various machine architectures, including sequential processors, vector processors, and multicomputers, and it can be ported to new computer architectures that may emerge.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Adult education
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-57108-1 (9780262571081)
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Author
University of Tennessee
Editor
Thomas M. Siebel ChairUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Argonne Distinguished Fellow EmeritusArgonne National Laboratory