Parallel Virtual Machine

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) is a software tool for parallel networking of computers. It is designed to allow a network of heterogeneous Unix and/or Windows machines to be used as a single distributed parallel processor. Thus large computational problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and memory of many computers. The software is very portable; the source code, available free through netlib, has been compiled on everything from laptops to Crays.

Author
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Author
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Comment
enParallel Virtual Machine (PVM) is a software tool for parallel networking of computers. It is designed to allow a network of heterogeneous Unix and/or Windows machines to be used as a single distributed parallel processor. Thus large computational problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and memory of many computers. The software is very portable; the source code, available free through netlib, has been compiled on everything from laptops to Crays.
Date
21 March 2007
Developer
University of Tennessee
Developer
University of Tennessee
Has abstract
enParallel Virtual Machine (PVM) is a software tool for parallel networking of computers. It is designed to allow a network of heterogeneous Unix and/or Windows machines to be used as a single distributed parallel processor. Thus large computational problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and memory of many computers. The software is very portable; the source code, available free through netlib, has been compiled on everything from laptops to Crays. PVM enables users to exploit their existing computer hardware to solve much larger problems at less additional cost. PVM has been used as an educational tool to teach parallel programming but has also been used to solve important practical problems. It was developed by the University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Emory University. The first version was written at ORNL in 1989, and after being rewritten by University of Tennessee, version 2 was released in March 1991. Version 3 was released in March 1993, and supported fault tolerance and better portability. PVM was a step towards modern trends in distributed processing and grid computing but has, since the mid-1990s, largely been supplanted by the much more successful MPI standard for message passing on parallel machines. PVM is free software, released under both the BSD License and the GNU General Public License.
Homepage
www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/pvm.html
Hypernym
Tool
Is primary topic of
Parallel Virtual Machine
Label
enParallel Virtual Machine
LatestReleaseDate
2 February 2009
Latest release date
2 February 2009
LatestReleaseVersion
3.40
Latest release version
3.4.6
License
BSD licenses
License
BSD licenses
License
GNU General Public License
License
GNU General Public License
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www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/pvm.html
www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html
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Broadcasting (computing)
BSD License
BSD licenses
C (programming language)
C++
Calculus of Broadcasting Systems
Calculus of communicating systems
Category:Inter-process communication
Category:Parallel computing
Category:Software using the BSD license
Category:Virtualization software
Compiler
Computer
Computer network
Computer software
CORBA
CPU
Cray
Distributed processing
Ease (programming language)
Emory University
Ethernet
Executable
Fault tolerance
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
Fortran
Free software
Globus Alliance
GNU General Public License
Grid computing
Laptop
Linda (coordination language)
Message Passing Interface
Multiprocessor
Netlib
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Occam (programming language)
Parallel processor
Parallel programming
Personal computer
Portability (computer science)
Scalar processor
Supercomputer
University of Tennessee
Vector processor
Virtual machine
Workstation
OperatingSystem
enWindows and Unix
ProgrammingLanguage
C (programming language)
Programming language
C (programming language)
Released
1989
SameAs
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PVM
Q963222
Паралельна віртуальна машина
ماشین مجازی موازی
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Subject
Category:Inter-process communication
Category:Parallel computing
Category:Software using the BSD license
Category:Virtualization software
Title
enParawiki: Parallel Virtual Machine
Url
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Website
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