PVM is a software system that allows you to combine a number of computers which
are connected over a network into a parallel virtual machine. This machine can
consist of computers with different architectures, running different flavors of
the unix operating systems and can still be treated as if it were a single
parallel machine. As the software is
public_domain
this means that many organizations which already have a cluster of workstations
can get a parallel machine for free and solve larger problems using existing
hardware resources.
This tutorial was developed as an introduction and an online reference to PVM
for students at the
Physics Department at
Oregon State University.