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- From: matthews@cs.hope.edu (Eric Matthews)
- Subject: Re: Distributed computing under Linux?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.001531.25375@cs.hope.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.hope.edu
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- Organization: Hope College
- References: <1992Nov17.071212.19153@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:15:31 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article 19153@pool.info.sunyit.edu, ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
- > (or other forms of distributed processing) applications involving
- > free operating systems so we can make the most of our computers. Anybody
- > have some interesting applications or ideas they would like to share with
- > us?
-
- There is one really neat, easy to use, freely available system for distributed
- processing on unix-machines. PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) developed at Oak Ridge
- National Laboratories, enables a network of heterogeneous computers to function
- as a single computing resource or multi-computer.
-
- PVM consists of two important parts. First, there is a daemon that resides
- on all to be included in the multi-computer. This daemon keeps track of PVM processes
- and communications between processes. Second, there is a user library of functions
- that a programmer can employ to initiate processes, enroll processes with the PVM
- daemon, send or receive messages between processes, etc....
-
- PVM currently supports many different architectures, NEXT - SUN - SGI - CRAY -
- BUTTERFLY - THINKING MACHINE and more. The source code is included with PVM so it can
- be compiled on just about any unix-type system. I am new to LINUX so I haven't tied
- to install it on my LINUX box yet, there will probably be problems that will have to be
- worked out.
-
- I have been using PVM on SUN SPARCstations for about six months now
- and have found that it is a very good. I developed a distributed ray-tracing package
- called PHOTOSYNTHESIS that can significantly reduce rendering times for complicated
- images....
-
- I have just been looking for mail address for PVM and Oak Ridge and can't
- find it any where in my account. I'll post a follow up later with the mail address.
- Sorry to tempt you and leave you cold, sorry!!
-
- Eric J. Matthews
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