A User''s Guide to PVM Parallel Virtual Machine

Abstract

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 processes on other machines, for communicating between processes, and synchronizing processes.