Using the Memory Channel Network
IEEE Micro
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PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a popular standard for writing parallel programs so that they may execute over a network of heterogeneous machines. This paper presents some performance results of PVM on three massively parallel processing systems: the Thinking Machines CM-5, the Intel Paragon, and the IBM SP-2. We describe the basics of the communication model of PVM and its communication routines. We then compare its performance with native message-passing systems on the MPPs.