Norm Matloff's PVM Web Page

Professor Norm Matloff
Dept. of Computer Science
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA 95616

(Please mail any questions to Norm Matloff.)

PVM ("Parallel Virtual Machine") is a message-passing library and runtime system, callable from C or C++ on any TCP/IP network (and usable on special hardware as well, such as shared-memory multiprocessors). It is free, public domain software, and is extremely widely used. It is also quite well documented in an MIT Press book (actually available in its entirety on the Web; see below), its own Usenet newsgroups (comp.parallel.pvm), and so on. Although PVM has evolved into another message-passing system, MPI, PVM continues to enjoy wide popularity.

Paul Hirose of ACS has placed PVM executables on the ACS SPARCs (the "Mexican food" machines), in /usr/local/pvm.

Here is information on PVM:

• PVM home page.

• Official PVM documentation (MIT Press book, available online in its entirety, with Web-linked table of contents, etc.).

• Man pages for PVM function calls and commands.

• My brief notes on how to use PVM.

Other software Web sites by Norm Matloff:

• Professor Matloff's Unix/C tutorials.

• Dr. Matloff's introduction to the mutt e-mail utility. Don't use pine! It was designed for people who are afraid of computers, not for computer experts.

• His introduction to the elvis text editor. It is much better than ordinary vi (and far, FAR better than pico). X11 mouse capability; subwindows (even on nongraphics terminals); infinite undo; paragraph formatting and so on.

• Norman Matloff's guide to fast debugging!

• Dr. Matloff's beginner's guide to installing and using Linux.

• His general guide to editing program source code.

• Norm Matloff's Chinese-language software page.