UW PADS PVM Homepage

This page is for designed for users of PVM, the Parallel Virtual Machine, in the Parallel and Distributed Systems (PADS) Group at the University of Waterloo.

Links to other places with PVM information

This is the Official PVM WWW Page.
The online version of the PVM Manual (this link goes to the contents).
Looking for papers on PVM? The Network Computing Working Notes in Netlib's PVM Library is an excellent starting point.
Looking for Recent Enhancements to PVM?
Here is a link to PADE, the Parallel Application Development Environment developed at National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland, USA.
Utilities such as pvmmake can be found here.
The HENSA (Higher Education National Software Archive) contains a Parallel Computing Archive. They also have a lot of stuff on their PVM page.
This page is the result of a WebCrawler Search on pvm stuff.
Bob Manchek wrote most of PVM so he has a wee bit of stuff about it.

Information on the UW installation of PVM

PVM is available on all of the workstations in the Facilities available to the PADS group.

In the past, PVM was ran on a network of Apollo workstations running a local port of PVM to the Apollo OS.

Other information on PVM

Apparently, there is a multithreaded version of PVM called tpvm written by Vaidy Sunderam. A copy may be at ftp.mathcs.emory.edu.

There is already a PVM port of POVRay that is available at ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/patches/pvmpovray.tar.Z You will most likely also need the source code for POVRay 2.2 at ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Official/Generic-Unix/povsrc.tar.Z Don't forget to get the documentation. POVRay won't work without it! ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Official/Generic-Unix/povdoc.tar.Z

A list of bugs and quirks that have come up recently on comp.parallel.pvm.

A course on parallel computing be taught using PVM at Michigan State.

The TotalView Debugger from BBN Systems and Technologies is now able to debug PVM applications on Sun SPARCstations, Digital Alpha, and IBM AIX systems. A free demo is available through the Internet. To find out how to get a demonstration copy or for more information look at http://www.bbn.com/tv.

Mark Frazer -- mjfrazer@gmail.com frickin' computers