Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: mjlin@hecto.cs.umn.edu (Mengjou Lin)
Subject: Re: PVM version using FORE ATM API
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 1994 05:17:42 GMT
Message-ID: <CsK1D3.G5C@news.cis.umn.edu>

Bill Humphrey write:
> 
> Hello -
> 
>Several days ago a person posted a note describing an effort to use PVM  
>with the FORE Systems ATM-network API. I have tried to contact this person for 
>more information, but have not heard anything back.  And so, a general request 
>I'm looking for anyone with information about a version of PVM which uses the  
>FORE ATM API.  Our research group operates a network of several HP 735's with  
>ATM interfaces, and we are very interested in applications which could take  
>advantage of the ATM API and avoid some of the TCP/IP overhead.
> 

Hi, we have a team working on porting the PVM 3.3.2 over ATM networks
using Fore Systems ATM API.  We had completed the implementation of 
AAL3/4 and AAL5 protocols and multicasting over ATM switches.  
The source code will be available for public access in the next few days.

If you are interested in the performance of running distributed programs
over ATM networks, you could refer to the paper "Distributed Network Computing 
over Local ATM Networks".  This paper studied the performance of
using different APIs (Fore Systems' ATM API, Socket Interface, PVM, and RPC).
This paper is available via anonymous ftp to 

	ftp.cs.umn.edu (/users/du/papers/atmperf.ps)

The work of porting PVM over ATM networks is the follow up of this paper.

Mengjou Lin (mjlin@cs.umn.edu)
Computer Science Department
University of Minnesota

