[nycbug-talk] Parallel Virtual Machine

[Peter Wright]

> Hey All,
>
> A colleague of mine just found something called PVM, which looks like
> a really interesting problem-solver (cheap and easy distributed CPU
> use?):

yea i remember checking it out a while back.  it seemed pretty good if you
are writing a custom application.  if i remember correctly PVM provides C
lib's that allow you to pass messages via network sockets to your cluster
for computation.  unfortunatly, i was never in a situation where i could
use it.

-pete

>
> On Apr 10, 2006, at 4:58 PM, Chad Whitacre wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Just came across this:
>>
>> PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that permits a
>> heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked
>> together by a network to be used as a single large parallel
>> computer. [...] With tens of thousands of users, PVM has become the
>> de facto standard for distributed computing world-wide.
>>
>> Anyone seen this before? There are Perl and Python bindings that
>> seem to be fairly well-maintained.
>>
>> http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/
>
>
> Rocket-
> .ike
>
>
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