Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 7 1996

Foil 125 PVM Features

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
The PVM system provides a set of user interface routines that may be incorporated into existing C or Fortran programs.
Routines exist for the process control, message transmission and reception, broadcasting, synchronisation via barriers, mutual exclusion, shared memory, dynamic process groups and some forms of error detection and recovery.

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