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Obtaining and Installing PVM

How to obtain PVM

• Source code, user's guides, examples and related material are published on netlib, a software repository with sites at ORNL and ATT
  • Send e-mail to netlib as follows

subject: send index from pvm3

• Instructions will be sent back automatically

• Also available via anonymous FTP from:
  • netlib2.cs.utk.edu

• Mosaic/netscape with the URL

• Gopher is primitive but quick (usually)

select

Interactively Browse the Whole Archive

once connected

find pvm

Installing PVM

• Download gzipped tar file eg.

• gunzip and untar (place pvm in a user directory or a system directory such as /usr/local/pvm3)

tar xvf pvm3.3.9.tar

• Read the Readme file

• Set environment variables as described and type make

Future Enhancements

• The next version of pvm is supposed to have
  • Greater scalability to enable 100s of hosts to be used in parallel

  • Parallel startup

  • Better debugging: libpvm to generate trace messages

  • Better high speed network utilization eg. FDDI

  • Better console program with features such as command history, command aliases and quoting