PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine
by Al Geist, at al.
Publisher: The MIT Press 1994
ISBN/ASIN: 0262571080
ISBN-13: 9780262571081
Number of pages: 299
Description:
Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is the definitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer users who want to use PVM to increase the flexibility and power of their high-performance computing resources. PVM introduces distributed computing, discusses where and how to get the PVM software, provides an overview of PVM and a tutorial on setting up and running existing programs, and introduces basic programming techniques including putting PVM in existing code.
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