PVM Support for Clusters

  • Authors:
  • Paul L. Springer

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CLUSTER '01 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The latest version of PVM (3.4.3) now contains support for a PC cluster running Linux, also known as a Beowulf system. A PVM user of a computer outside the cluster can add the cluster as a single machine. All details of the cluster are hidden, and spawning to the cluster automatically puts tasks on individual nodes. This will work even if the nodes are on a private network, as long as the user's computer has a way of connecting to the "front-end" of the cluster..