Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: liporace@vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: OS/2 version of PVM
Organization: IBM Rio Scientific Center
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1994 12:21:04 GMT
Message-ID: <D1F3n4.7sq@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com>

       There is a beta version, please let me know how it goes if you try it!

       regards,
       Fred

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From: BILL@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Bill Paterson)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: PVM under OS/2 ?  See comp.os.os2.announce
Date: 6 Sep 1994 21:10:11 -0500
Message-ID: <199409070210.VAA21440@news.cs.utexas.edu>

To what extent is the alleged PVM port to OS/2 an alternative to the original
running under Unix if you cannot run more than one machine with it?

FYI:

2NEW OS/2 UTILITY:  PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine
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 Submitted by:   Jan Ftacnik (ftacnikj@fnal05.fnal.gov)
 Source:         Jan Ftacnik (ftacnikj@fnal05.fnal.gov)
 Date received:  1994 January 3
 Date posted:    1994 January 23
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 In case anybody is interested I have released a beta version of my port of
 PVM3.2 (patchlevel 5) to OS2 v2.1.

 PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software system that enables a
 collection of heterogeneous computers to be used as a coherent and flexible
 computational resource. It is one of the most frequently used message passing
 software system for parallel programing that has wide support from the
 industry (CRAY, SGI, IBM ..) but at the same time is in public domain.
 It runs on on almost any UNIX machine (Linux and BSD386 including), on many
 massively parallel computers and now also on a lovely PC running OS2 :-).
 The software uses TCP/IP for the communication between machines (and also
 programs within one machine).

 Because OS2 normaly doesn't come with TCP/IP software, I have to be a little
 bit more specific. The port uses IBM produced TCP/IP v2.0 (version 1.2 was
 essentialy 16 bit, so that one can't be used). If you would want to recompile
 PVM you need not only base package with relevant DLL's, but also programming
 package. For those wanting to use PVM libraries as a user base package is
 enough.

 The port uses emx development system and on the FORTRAN side f2c is used.

 The port is fully compatible (you don't have to change anything in the part
 of your program that deals with PVM calls). There is one nonessential
 functionality missing (the PVM error messages from the user programs are lost
 due to peculiarity of sockets with respect to files and pipes) and I have not
 yet tested the use of this port in the LAN environment. It is targeted now as
 a convenient way to write and partly debug PVM programs in the comfort of your
 own PC running OS2 v2.1 (that is many times not even connected to the LAN).
 The lack of testing of the LAN connectivity and fuctionality of this port of
 PVM is the main reason why it is considered to be beta test. I intend to fully
-test and release fully finished port within 2 to 3 months.

 The port is placed on the main OS2 ftp site called ftp-os2.cdrom.com
 (192.153.46.2) and can be found in /pub/os2/2_x/program as file pvm3os2b.zip.
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Respectfully,
Bill Paterson


