pvm

Scilab description
Last update : 12/01/2004

pvm - communications with other applications using Parallel Virutal Machine

### Description

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.

Daemon programs (`pvmd3` ) provide communication and process control between computers (see PVM manpage and manual for more details).

Most important functions of the PVM communication library are included in Scilab.

### Warning

PVM must be installed in your envriromnent before using it in Scilab. PVM scilab have been developped using the version 3.3.7 of the PVM library.

### See Also

`pvm_barrier` , `pvm_mytid` , `pvm_bcast` , `pvm_parent` , `pvm_config` , `pvm_delhosts` , `pvm_recv` , `pvm_exit` , `pvm_send` , `pvm_getinst` , `pvm_spawn` , `pvm_gettid` , `pvm_spawn_independent` , `pvm_gsize` , `pvm_tasks` , `pvm_joingroup` , `pvm_tidtohost` , `pvm_kill` , `pvm_lvgroup` , `pvm_start` , `pvm_halt` ,

### Author

PVM have been developped by A. L. Beguelin, J. J. Dongarra, G. A. Geist, W. C. Jiang, R. J. Manchek, B. K. Moore, V. S. Sunderam (see http://www.netlib.org/pvm3)