At 18:25 27.10.98 +0000, David L Nicol wrote:
>Mentions a project begun in 1990:
>
>"The Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) project is started to develop
>software needed to use heterogeneous distributed computers. "
>
>but doesn't provide a bointer beyond a bibliographic reference.
PVM is still going on.
It's at http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/, and the leadin says:
PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software system that enables a
collection of heterogeneous computers to be used as a coherent and flexible
concurrent computational resource. 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, etc.
Apparently it's maintained as a fast, simple, lightweight machine as
an alternative to more "heavy" approaches like MPI.
Don't ask me, I don't know much more at all.....
Harald A
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