Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: manchek@refuge.Colorado.EDU (Bob Manchek)
Subject: New book available on PVM from MIT Press and on the Internet
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: 12 Nov 1994 20:43:24 GMT
Message-ID: <3a39dc$n2d@lace.Colorado.EDU>

New book available on PVM from MIT Press and on the Internet

PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine
A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Network Parallel Computing
by Al Geist, Adam Beguelin, Jack Dongarra, Weicheng Jiang,
Robert Manchek, and Vaidyalingam S. Sunderam

Written by the team that developed the software, this tutorial is the
definitive resource for scientists, engineers, and other computer users
who want to use PVM to increase the flexibility and power of their
high-performance computing resources. PVM introduces distributed
computing, discusses where and how to get the PVM software, provides an
overview of PVM and a tutorial on setting up and running existing
programs, and introduces basic programming techniques (e.g. putting PVM
in existing code. There are program examples and details on how PVM
works on UNIX and multiprocessor systems, advanced topics (portability,
debugging, improving performance) and troubleshooting.

PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that enables the
computer user to define and allow a networked heterogeneous collection of
serial, parallel, and vector computers to function as one large computer.
It can be used as stand-alone software or as a foundation for other
heterogeneous network software. PVM may be configured to contain various
machine architectures, including sequential processors, vector
processors, and multicomputers, and it can be ported to new computer
architectures that may emerge.

George A. Geist II is a research scientist at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory. Adam Beguelin is a research computer scientist in the School
of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Jack Dongarra is a
Distinguished Scientist at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge
Nat. Lab, Weicheng Jiang is a research associate, and
Robert Manchek is a senior research associate in the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. Vaidyalingam S.
Sunderam is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science at Emory University.

PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine is in the MIT Press's Scientific and
Engineering Computation series.

To order from the publisher, send email to <mitpress-orders@mit.edu>,
or telephone 800-356-0343 or 617-625-8569. Send snail mail orders to
The MIT Press, Book Order Department, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA
02142.  ISBN 0-262-57108-0

See http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/mitp/recent-books/comp/geist.html
for more information.

This book is also available in postscript and html forms over the Internet.

To retrieve the postscript version of the book you can use one of 
the following methods:

o) anonymous ftp 
     ftp netlib2.cs.utk.edu
     cd pvm3/book
     get pvm-book.ps
     quit

o) from any machine on the Internet type: 
     rcp anon@netlib2.cs.utk.edu:pvm3/book/pvm-book.ps pvm-book.ps 

o) sending email to netlib@ornl.gov and in the message type:
     send pvm-book.ps from pvm3/book

o) use Xnetlib and click ``library'', click ``pvm3'', click ``book'',
   click ``pvm3/pvm-book.ps'', click ``download'', click ``Get Files Now''.
   (Xnetlib is an X-window interface to the netlib software
    based on a client-server model. The software can
    be found in netlib, ``send index from xnetlib'').

To view the html version of the book use the URL:
  http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/book/pvm-book.html



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