The PVM daemon pvmd3 is a Unix process which oversees the operation of user processes within a PVM application and co-ordinates inter-machine PVM communications. |
One daemon runs on each machine configured into your PVM machine. Each will have their own pvmd3s running. |
The "master" PVM daemon is the first PVM daemon started and is responsible for starting all other PVM daemons in your parallel virtual machine. Typically started on your login machine. |
Each daemon maintains a table of configuration and process information relative to your parallel virtual machine. |