The Semantics of PVM Message Passing

This section focuses on the message-passing features of PVM.

• Terminology
  • Synchronous Send
  • Asynchronous Send
  • Blocking Send
  • Non-blocking Send
  • Blocking Receive
  • Non-blocking Receive
• The Communication Model
• The Message-Passing Functions in PVM
  • pvm_send()-pvm_recv-pvm_nrecv()
  • pvm_psend()-pvm_precv()
• Summary
• Implementation on MPPs