Abstract

This is a draft of the PVM version 3.3 users' guide and reference manual. It contains an overview of PVM, and how version 3 can be obtained, installed and used. PVM stands for Parallel Virtual Machine. It is a software package that allows a heterogeneous network of parallel and serial computers to appear as a single concurrent computational resource. PVM consists of two parts: a daemon process that any user can install on a machine, and a user library that contains routines for initiating processes on other machines, for communicating between processes, and changing the configuration of machines. New features in this release are pointed out and described in detail. In addition this report describes the internal workings of version 3 and gives the user interface specifications. It describes several popular programming paradigms, which PVM supports, and gives several example programs in C and Fortran77. The report discusses issues and options regarding load balancing, performance, and fa...

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