Listing Of PVM Routines For Controling The Virtual Machine

Routine NameOperation
pvm_addhosts Add hosts to the virtual machine
pvm_catchout Catch output from child tasks.
pvm_config Returns information about the present virtual machine configuration.
pvm_delhosts Deletes hosts from the virtual machine.
pvm_exit Tells the local pvmd that this process is leaving PVM.
pvm_getopt Returns the value of libpvm options.
pvm_gettid Returns the tid of the process identified by a group name and instance number.
pvm_halt Shuts down the entire PVM system.
pvm_hostsync Get time-of-day clock from PVM host.
pvm_kill Terminates a specified PVM process.
pvm_mstat Returns the status of a host in the virtual machine.
pvm_mytid Returns the tid of the calling process.
pvm_notify Request notification of PVM event such as host failure.
pvm_parent Returns the tid of the process that spawned the calling process.
pvm_perror Prints message describing the last error returned by a PVM call.
pvm_pstat Returns the status of the specified PVM process.
pvm_setopt Sets libpvm options.
pvm_spawn Starts new PVM processes.
pvm_start_pvmd Starts new PVM daemon.
pvm_tasks Returns information about the tasks running on the virtual machine.
pvm_tidtohost Returns the host of the specified PVM process.

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