Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: Re: PVM on Windows PCs?
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 17:43:53 GMT
Message-ID: <L7URBRCN@math.fu-berlin.de>

dfields@lehman.com (Doug Fields) writes:

: If nobody has any PVM ports, would there be any net-wide interest in a
: limited PVM for Windows 3.11?

There is strong interest in our group.
An OS/2 version was made available by Jan Ftacnik a while ago.
I attach its readme file below. However, many people use 
Windows, not OS/2, and would still want to have a system like PVM.
Even if we would install OS/2, I'm not sure if the software we'd 
like to connect with PVM, which is Windows software, can be easily 
linked to a native OS/2 module.
I would highly appreciate 
- information about using OS/2 functionality from a Windows program 
  run inside an OS/2 Windows session. (In the analog situation of a DOS 
  box inside Windows there is unfortunately no access.)
- if someone ports the OS/2 version of PVM to Windows (perhaps easy?)
- if someone ports PVM to Windows

Thomas Wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de


              Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)
              software for OS2 2.x platform.


  PVM is a software system that enables a collection of heterogeneous
computers to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational
resource.

  The individual computers may be shared- or local-memory multiprocessors,
vector supercomputers, specialized graphics engines, or scalar
workstations, that may be interconnected by a variety of networks,
such as ethernet, FDDI.

  User programs written in C, C++ or Fortran access PVM through library
routines.


   For various technical reasons explained later you are strongly
urged to move pvm3os2.zip file to the root directory of any drive
and unzip it there. It will create \pvm3 directory structure plus
\tmp directory (also explained later). In order to be able to
unzip it you will need around 3 Mb of free disk space.

   Please be aware that to sensibly use this software you need to
have TCP/IP v2.0 installed and running (base package is enough
if you don't want to recompile PVM, otherwise you need also
development package). You also have to have emx development system
installed (preferably latest version 0.8h) if you want to do anything
more then just to play with precompiled example programs. Therefore
I am not including emx.dll that is needed for running programs compiled
with emx+gcc.


                                       Jan Ftacnik
                                ftacnikj@fnal05.fnal.gov


