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Foil 136 PVM Libraries

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 three PVM libraries are:
  • - libpvm3.a - library of C language interface routines. - libfpvm3.a - additionally required for Fortran codes - libgpvm3.a - required for use with dynamic groups
Contain simple calls that the application programmer embeds in concurrent or parallel application code. Provide the ability to:
  • - initiate and terminate processes - pack, send, receive and broadcast messages - synchronise via barriers - query and dynamically change configuration of the parallelvirtual machine

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