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Parallel programming with PVM

Philippe Marquet
marquet@lifl.fr

Maîtrise d'informatique

November 22, 1993
minor changes, November 24, 1994
revised, December 9, 1994
revised, January 10, 1995
revised, January 7, 1996
February 1998

• Thanks to
• PVM---Parallel Virtual Machine

1   Overview

• Major advantages of PVM
• Features
• Heterogeneity
• Portability
• Evolution of PVM
• Structure
• Structure: the daemons
• Structure: the library
• Structure of a virtual machine
• How to get it

2   Using PVM

• Building PVM
• Installing PVM
• Programming concepts
• Starting a parallel virtual machine
  • The pvm console
• Configuring a virtual machine
• XPVM
• Tools

3   Programming with PVM, the user interface

• Introduction
• Process management primitives
• Information
• Dynamic configuration
• Signaling
• Error messages
• Message passing
  • Message buffers
  • Packing data
  • Unpacking data
  • Sending and receiving data
• Communication realization
• Dynamic process groups
• Fortran interface

4   Writing applications

• Hello world in C
• Hello world in Fortran
• Parallelizing applications
• Divide and Conquer
• Bag of Tasks
• The master/slave model
• The SPMD model

5   Debugging methods

• Debugging a PVM program
• Three steps in debugging PVM programs

6   Implementation details

• Network protocols
• PVM at work
• Tid--Task identifier
• Data conversion
  • PVM version 2
  • PVM version 3

7   Pros and cons

• Pros of PVM
• Cons of PVM

8   Conclusions

• New features of PVM 3.4
• Work in progress
• Other software

9   Exercises

• Add/delete host
• Matrix
• Failure-tolerant BoT
• Gather

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