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  <title>Parallel Virtual Machine</title>

  <description>PVM is a software system that enables a collection of heterogeneous

computers to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent

computational resource.

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The individual computers may be shared- or local-memory

multiprocessors, vector supercomputers, specialized graphics engines,

or scalar workstations, that may be interconnected by a variety of

networks, such as ethernet, FDDI.  User programs written in C, C++ or

Fortran access PVM through library routines.

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After installation you find in /usr/share/doc/packages/pvm/ the

documentation as PostScript file pvm-book.ps.  Furthermore some

examples are packed together in two tar archives.  Those archives

should be extracted into your HOME directory which leads to

~/pvm3/examples/ or ~/pvm3/gexamples/ in your HOME directory.  The call

`aimk all' (see manual page aimk(1)) e.g. in ~/pvm3/examples/ compiles

the examples for the PVM system.

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The PVM web home page is at http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html .

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Authors:

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    J. J. Dongarra      <pvm@msr.epm.ornl.gov>

    G. E. Fagg      <pvm@msr.epm.ornl.gov>

    G. A. Geist     <pvm@msr.epm.ornl.gov>

    J. A. Kohl      <pvm@msr.epm.ornl.gov>

    R. J. Manchek       <pvm@msr.epm.ornl.gov>

    P. Mucci        <pvm@msr.epm.ornl.gov>

    P. M. Papadopoulos  <pvm@msr.epm.ornl.gov>

    S. L. Scott     <pvm@msr.epm.ornl.gov>

    V. S. Sunderam      &lt;pvm@msr.epm.ornl.gov&gt;</description>

  <person userid="netmax" role="maintainer"/>

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