Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: pefv700@chpc.utexas.edu (Christopher Phillips)
Subject: PVMFS for PVM 3.3.4 now available on ftp.netlib.org
Keywords: PVM file server
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, HPCF
Date: 12 Sep 1994 21:41:07 -0500
Message-ID: <3533g3$nem@mintaka.chpc.utexas.edu>

PVMFS, a file server for PVM, is now available on ftp.netlib.org
as a patch to the PVM 3.3.4 source.  From Readme.fs:

	PVMFS - PVM File Server

	PVMFS is a PVM task process which facilitates I/O for programs
	utilizing the Parallel Virtual Machine system (see pvm(1PVM))
	on a cluster of workstations.  The file server presents a
	common file system and support for coordinated I/O to its
	parent and siblings.

This means that you can do

	localhost% parallel_prog < input > output

and that all files opened/read/written by all PVM tasks spawned by
parallel_prog are on localhost.  Also, things like printing in ``node
order'' are possible.

PVMFS now works on the ALPHA, CNVXN, CRAY, PMAX, RS6K, SUN4, and
SUN4SOL2 architectures.  Thanks go to Jim Nordby (jhn@cray.com)
and Cray Research, Inc. for allowing the system call numbers (which
are missing on some systems) to be distributed.

Chris

