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Presently, different vendors' MPI implementations cannot interoperate directly with each other. As a result, performance of distributed computing across different vendors' machines requires use of a single MPI implementation, such as MPICH. This solution may be sub-optimal since it cannot utilize the vendors' own optimized MPI implementations. PVMPI, a software package currently under development at the University of Tennessee, provides the needed interoperability between different vendors' optimized MPI implementations. As the name suggests PVMPI is a powerful combination of the proven and widely ported Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) system and MPI. PVMPI is transparent to MPI applications thus allowing intercommunication via all the MPI point-to-point calls. Additionally, PVMPI allows flexible control over MPI applications by providing access to all the process control and resource control functions available in the PVM virtual machine.
This work was supported in part by the NSF under grant ASC-9214149, the Mathematical, Information and Computer Sciences subprogram of the Office of Energy Research, DOE, under Contract DE-AC05-84OR21400, Rice University and The State of Tennessee.
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Fagg, G.E., Dongarra, J.J., Geist, A. (1997). Heterogeneous MPI application interoperation and process management under PVMPI . 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_74
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