Title :
PVM: Experiences, current status and future direction
Author :
Beguelin, Adam ; Dongarra, Jack ; Geist, Al ; Manchek, Robert ; Otto, Steve ; Walpole, Jon
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
The computing requirements of many current and future applications, ranging from scientific computational problems in the material and physical sciences, to simulation, engineering design, and circuit analysis, are best served by concurrent processing. While hardware multiprocessors can frequently address the computational requirements of these high-performance applications, there are a number of integration aspects to concurrent computing that are not adequately addressed when conventional parallel processors are used to solve these problems.
Keywords :
electronic engineering computing; multiprocessing programs; parallel programming; physics computing; software packages; PVM; circuit analysis; computational requirements; computing requirements; concurrent computing; concurrent processing; engineering design; hardware multiprocessors; high-performance applications; integration aspects; material sciences; parallel processors; parallel virtual machine; physical sciences; scientific computational problems; simulation; software package; Application software; Circuit analysis computing; Computer networks; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Hypercubes; Physics computing; Virtual machining; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Supercomputing '93. Proceedings
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4340-4
DOI :
10.1109/SUPERC.1993.1263532
