Another Architecture: PVM on Windows 95/NT

This paper describes the implementation of PVM in the new WIN32-bit world. There are no restrictions to existing applications which are using PVM since it is fully compatible to the existing PVM3 release. We discuss the limits and provide some benchmarking results. The software package is freely available at netlib: http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/index.html 1 Introduction 1.1 The PVM System PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a de facto standard message passing interface. It is an integrated set of software tools and libraries that emulates a general-purpose, flexible, heterogeneous concurrent computing framework on interconnected computers of varied architectures. The overall objective of the PVM system is to enable such a collection of computers to be used cooperatively for concurrent or parallel computation. 1.1.1 Current Architectures So far, PVM is available for 40 different architectures combining Unix- workstations, shared memory machines and MPP's to one single parallel virtual m..