PVM_INTRO (1)

DESCRIPTION

PVM 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.

User programs written in C, C++ or Fortran access PVM through library routines (libpvm3.a and libfpvm3.a).

Daemon programs (pvmd3) provide communication and process control between computers.

MACHINE ARCHITECTURE

In the PVM system, machines are assigned a short string to identify their architectures (this includes operating system type as well as CPU type). The types currently predefined in the distribution are:

AFX8

Alliant FX/8

ALPHA

DEC Alpha/OSF-1

ALPHAMP

DEC Alpha/OSF-1 / using shared memory

AIX46K

IBM/RS6000 / AIX 4.x

AIX4MP

IBM SMP / shared memory transport / AIX 4.x

AIX4SP2

IBM SP-2 / using MPI / AIX 4.x

APOLLO

HP 300 running Domain/OS

ATT

AT&T/NCR 3600 running SysVR4

BAL

Sequent Balance

BFLY

BBN Butterfly TC2000

BSD386

80[345]86 running BSDI or BSD386

CM2

Thinking Machines CM-2 Sun front-end

CM5

Thinking Machines CM-5

CNVX

Convex using IEEE floating-point

CNVXN

Convex using native f.p.

CRAY

Cray

CRAY2

Cray-2

CRAYSMP

Cray S-MP

CSPP

Convex Exemplar

CYGWIN

POSIX emulation layer on top of Windows32

DGAV,DGIX

Data General Aviion

E88K

Encore 88000

FREEBSD

80[345]86 running FreeBSD

HP300

HP 9000 68000 cpu

HPPA

HP 9000 PA-Risc

HPPAMP

HP 9000 PA-Risc / shared memory transport

KSR1

Kendall Square

I860

Intel RX Hypercube

IPSC2

Intel IPSC/2

LINUX

80[345]86 running Linux

LINUXALPHA

DEC Alpha running Linux

LINUXARM

Strogarm running Linux

LINUXHPPA

HP 9000 running Linux

LINUXPPC

PowerPC running Linux

LINUXSPARC

Sparc running Linux

M88K

Motorola M88100 running Real/IX

M88K

Motorola M88100 running Real/IX

MASPAR

Maspar

MIPS

Mips

NETBSDALPHA

DEC Alpha running NetBSD

NETBSDAMIGA

Amiga running NetBSD

NETBSDARM32

Strongarm running NetBSD

NETBSDHP300

HP 300 running NetBSD

NETBSDI386

80[345]86 running NetBSD

NETBSDM68K

Any Motorola 68K running NetBSD

NETBSDMAC68K

Macintosh running NetBSD

NETBSDMIPSEB

Mips EB running NetBSD

NETBSDMIPSEL

Mips EL running NetBSD

NETBSDNS32K

NS32K running NetBSD

NETBSDPMAX

DEC Pmax running NetBSD

NETBSDPOWERPC

PowerPC running NetBSD

NETBSDSH3

SH3 running NetBSD

NETBSDSPARC

Sparc running NetBSD

NETBSDSPARC64

Sparc64 running NetBSD

NETBSDSUN3

SUN 3 running NetBSD

NETBSDVAX

Vax running NetBSD

NEXT

NeXT

OS2

OS/2

PGON

Intel Paragon

PMAX

DEC/Mips arch (3100, 5000, etc.)

RS6K

IBM/RS6000 / AIX 3.x

RS6KMP

IBM SMP / shared memory transport / AIX 3.x

RT

IBM/RT

SCO

80[345]86 running SCO Unix

SGI

Silicon Graphics IRIS

SGI5

Silicon Graphics IRIS running OS 5.0

SGI6

Silicon Graphics IRIS running OS >= 6.0

SGI64

Silicon Graphics IRIS running 64 bit

SGIMP

Silicon Graphics IRIS / OS 5.x / using shared memory

SGIMP6

Silicon Graphics IRIS / OS 6.x / using shared memory

SGIMP64

Silicon Graphics IRIS / 64 bit / using shared memory

SP2MPI

IBM SP-2 / using MPI / AIX 3.x

SUN3

Sun 3

SUN4

Sun 4, 4c, sparc, etc.

SUN4SOL2

Sun 4 running Solaris 2.x

SUNMP

Sun 4 / using shared memory / Solaris 2.x

SX3

NEC SX-3

SYMM

Sequent Symmetry

TITN

Stardent Titan

U370

IBM 3090 running AIX

UTS2

Amdahl running UTS

UVAX

DEC/Microvax

UWARE

Uware

UXPM

Fujitsu running UXP/M

VCM2

Thinking Machines CM-2 Vax front-end

WIN32

Windows 95/98/NT

X86SOL2

80[345]86 running Solaris 2.x