An Introduction to PVM

PVM is a public domain software package which may be installed on a wide range of Unix based machines as well as a range of parallel architecture computers. PVM permits a network of machines to be viewed as a single parallel computing resource. PVM provides a console to manipulate this resource and a library of communication routines to implement parallel algorithms in C, C++ and Fortran using the message passing programming paradigm.

This course should/can be combined with a course on the generic principles of message passing.

The topics covered include:

overview of PVM
PVM console commands
example program walk-through
aimk - architecture independent makefiles
dynamic process groups
dynamic configuration
XPVM - A Graphical Console and Monitor
practical exercises and demonstration programs for all of the above

For additional information on course schedule contact

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