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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting held in Bonn, Germany in September 2006.

The 38 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 6 invited contributions, 4 tutorial papers and 6 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on collective communication, communication protocols, debugging and verification, fault tolerance, metacomputing and grid, parallel I/O, implementation issues, object-oriented message passing, limitations and extensions, performance, and are completed with 6 contributions to the special ParSim session on current trends in numerical simulation for parallel engineering environments.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting held in Paris, France, September 30 - October 3,  2007.

The 40 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 6 invited contributions, 3 tutorial papers and 6 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on collective communication, communication protocols, debugging and verification, fault tolerance, metacomputing and grid, parallel I/O, implementation issues, object-oriented message passing, limitations and extensions, performance, and are completed with 6 contributions to the special ParSim session on current trends in numerical simulation for parallel engineering environments.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting held in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2008.

The 29 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 7 invited contributions, 1 tutorial paper and 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications, collective operations, library internals, message passing for multi-core and mutlithreaded architectures, MPI datatypes, MPI I/O, synchronisation issues in point-to-point and one-sided communications, tools, and verification of message passing programs. The volume is rounded off with 4 contributions to the special ParSim session on current trends in numerical simulation for parallel engineering environments.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting held in Sorrento, Italy in September 2005.

The 61 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 6 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on algorithms, extensions and improvements, cluster and grid, tools and environments, performance, applications and ParSim 2005.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments, HIPS 2001, held in San Francisco, CA, USA in April 2001.
The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected out of 20 submissions. The focus of the book is on high-level programming of networks of workstations, computing clusters, and massively parallel machines. Among the issues addressed are language design, compilers, system architectures, programming tools, and advanced applications. ... Read more

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As Linux increases its presence throughout the world as atarget platform for professional application development, its growthas a powerful, flexible system offering many free development toolsassures its place in the future. By giving you easy access to thiscomprehensive range of tools, supporting new and nascent technologies,at little or no cost, developing with Linux allows you to apply thesolution that's right for you.

In this follow-up to the best-selling Beginning Linux Programming, youwill learn from the authors' real-world knowledge and experience ofdeveloping software for Linux; you'll be taken through the developmentof a sample 'DVD Store' application, with 'theme' chapters addressingdifferent aspects of its implementation. Meanwhile, individual'take-a-break' chapters cover important topics that go beyond thebounds of the central theme. All focus on the practical aspects ofprogramming, showing how crucial it is to choose the right tools forthe job, use them as they should be used, and get things right firsttime.

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Experienced Linux programmers and aspiring developers alike will finda great deal of practical information in this book on libraries,techniques, tools and applications. You should be familiar with asimple Linux system, have a good working knowledge of programming inC, and a basic understanding of object-oriented programming with C++for the Qt/KDE chapters.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting held in Venice, Italy, in September/October 2003. The 64 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with abstracts of 8 invited contributions and 7 reviewed special track papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation and performance analysis; parallel algorithms using message passing; extensions, improvements, and implementations of PVM/MPI; parallel programming tools; applications in science and engineering; grid and heterogeneous computing; and numerical simulation of parallel engineering environments - ParSim 2003. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting on Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface, EuroPVM/MPI 2009, held in Espoo, Finland, September 7-10, 2009.

The 27 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The volume also includes 6 invited talks, one tutorial, 5 poster abstracts and 4 papers from the special session on current trends in numerical simulation for parallel engineering environments. The main topics of the meeting were Message Passing Interface (MPI)performance issues in very large systems, MPI program verification and MPI on multi-core architectures.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th European PVM/MPI users' Group Meeting held in Budapest, Hungary in September 2004.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference on the Parallel Virtual Machine, EuroPVM '96, the 1996 European PVM users' group meeting, held in Munich, Germany, in October 1996. The parallel virtual machine, PVM, was developed at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in cooperation with Emory University and Carnegie Mellon University to support distributed computing. This volume comprises 51 revised full contributions devoted to PVM. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation of PVM; Applications: CFD solvers; tools for PVM; non-numerical applications; extensions to PVM; etc. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Users' Group Meeting, PVM/MPI '97, held in Cracow, Poland in November 1997. Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface are the most popular tools for programming in accordance with the message passing paradigm which, at present, is considered to be the best way to develop effective parallel programs. The book presents 63 carefully selected papers covering the whole range of PVM/MPI issues. The papers are organized in sections on evaluation and performance, extensions and improvements, implementation, tools, algorithms, and applications in science and engineering. ... Read more

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Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is thedefinitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer userswho want to use PVM to increase the flexibility and power of theirhigh-performance computing resources. PVM introduces distributedcomputing, discusses where and how to get the PVM software, provides anoverview of PVM and a tutorial on setting up and running existingprograms, and introduces basic programming techniques including puttingPVM in existing code. There are program examples and details on how PVMworks on UNIX and multiprocessor systems, along with advanced topics(portability, debugging, improving performance) and troubleshooting. PVM(Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that enables thecomputer user to define a networked heterogeneous collection of serial,parallel, and vector computers to function as one large computer. It canbe used as stand-alone software or as a foundation for otherheterogeneous network software. PVM may be configured to contain variousmachine architectures, including sequential processors, vectorprocessors, and multicomputers, and it can be ported to new computerarchitectures that may emerge. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Parallelism APIs evolving
The Parallel Virtual Machine abstraction assumes a message passing environment built from Unix machines. It's message passing primitives are a good deal simpler than MPI's, and the authors note that MPI can be effective as an under-layer for that part of PVM. Unlike MPI, however, PVM emphasizes heterogeneous computing ensemble built from whatever hardware is already at hand.

What sets PVM apart from the others is its emphasis on the pragmatics of multi-computer coordination. More than the usual SPMD coordination, it has facilities for managing the ensemble. It even has facilities for signalling runaway processes and for recovering from lost nodes and other errors. And, although the authors note many system-dependent specifics, they address issues that arise in managing the server daemons, crossing administrative boundaries, and other pragmatics of parallel computing.

Most of the book is taken up with code samples and man pages for the PVM API. That gives it a very hands-on, practical feel, short on the philosophical and theoretical tone of other books on parallelism APIs. PVM doesn't depend on special compilers, so it's a bit easier for C programmers to approach than OpenMP is. And it's a compact API with just a few central concepts, mostly drawn from standard C idioms, so it's lot simpler that MPI. The book's mention of MasPar, Kendall Square Research, DEC, and Thinking Machines gives an antiquated sense, though. I'm not sure how common PVM is, these days, but if it's what you have, then this is the book for you.

//wiredweird

So you want to build a super computer?
I bought this book because I built a super-computer out of junk computers. I am writing a game based on Risk (the board game) that runs on all these machines. I decided I liked PVM better than MPI, because PVM doesn't require any special compilers and also it worked easier with SSH. Also it was easier to setup and use than MPI (IMHO).

This book is a good tutorial and introduction to PVM but the problem is it talks alot about strange computers and things you will most likely never heard of (HIPPI,bit-vector computers). While it is cool stuff, it's pretty old now. But, PVM is still alot easier (IMHO) to get into than MPI.

Or you can just roll your message passing code by hand using TCP/IP too. ... Read more