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PVM and MPI have often been compared regarding their functionality and performance from the users' point of view. In this paper, however, we will present some comparison from a tool developer's point of view. We will show how a supporting infrastructure — the OMIS compliant monitoring system OCM — can be implemented for both PVM and MPI. Thus, we will put light onto those features of PVM and MPI that support the implementation of on-line tools.
This work is partly funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Special Research Grant SFB 342, Subproject A1.
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Wismüller, R. (1998). On-line monitoring support in PVM and MPI. In: Alexandrov, V., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1497. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056590
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