NPAC Technical Report SCCS-607
XPVM An X Window Interface to a PVM Monitor
Gregor Von Laszewski
Submitted January 1 1994
Abstract
PVM, the Parallel Virtual Machine, provides the opportunity to access
a heterogeneous computer network for solving a particular problem. We
observed that machines at institutes are sometimes not easy to excess
because the user simply does not know the names or the IP address of
the machines in the cluster. A look in /etc/hosts might be helpful but
does often not show on which machine pvm should not be executed.
In order to assist the generating of hostfiles, the organization of the
pvm daemons and the execution of the pvm application we decided to
write a simple but powerful interface customized for our machine
configuration. We have been careful with the design in order to make
th program portable so that other PVM users at other institutes might
profit from the tool.