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Resource Management

PVM's comprehensive array of API routines allows the user the same level of control over the virtual machine as the system has. This flexibility has encouraged many projects to use PVM in different distributed computing environments [#RM##1#] such as Mist [#SHPCC##1#], dedicated schedulers [#CARMI##1#], load balancers, and process migration tools [#SC94##1#, #COCHECK##1#].



Jack Dongarra
Fri Apr 12 11:15:36 EDT 1996