Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: kohl@msr.epm.ornl.gov (James Kohl)
Subject: XPVM Release 1.0 Available
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory 
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 17:25:34 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jun13.172534.317@ornl.gov>


	***
	*** ATTENTION PVM USERS - Announcing...
	***

				XPVM


		*** Premiere Release Version 1.0 (at last :) ***

	XPVM is a graphical console and monitor for PVM.  It provides a
	graphical interface to the PVM console commands and information,
	along with several animated views to monitor the execution of PVM
	programs.  These views provide information about the interactions
	among tasks in a parallel PVM program, to assist in debugging and
	performance tuning.

	To analyze a program using XPVM a user need only compile their
	program using the PVM library version 3.3 or later, which has been
	instrumented to capture tracing information at run-time.  Then any
	tasks spawned from XPVM will return trace event information for
	analysis in real time or for post-mortem playback from saved
	trace files.

	For specifics on the various features of XPVM, and how to operate
	them, please refer to the appropriate on-line pop-up "Help"
	information provided with XPVM.

	* Disclaimer:  Please note that this is the first public release
	of this software, and we do not have access to all architectures
	or operating system configurations to test XPVM.  If you have
	any site-specific problems getting started or using XPVM, please
	contact us and we will do our best to get you up and running.  :-)

	Correspondence:
	---------------

	Mail any questions, problems or suggestions to me, Jim Kohl, at:

		kohl@msr.epm.ornl.gov

	Thanks & Good Luck!


