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Is PVM in Windows environments viable? This paper shows that the answer is yes! Furthermore, besides being viable as an alternative platform for the development of parallel applications, Windows environments allow PVM to have better performance figures than those obtained from LINUX environments. With this aim it is presented a performance evaluation of two different PVM implementations, one for the Windows and another for the LINUX operating system. This evaluation takes into account the main elements of each environment, studying in isolation the performance impact of each one. The results show that PVM in Windows environments is viable and can potentially produce better results, if an appropriate communication protocol implementation is available.
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Souza, P.S., Senger, L.J., Santana, M.J., Santana, R.C. (1997). Evaluating personal high performance computing with PVM on Windows and LINUX environments. In: Bubak, M., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63697-8_69
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