17.11 Additional Reading

The PVM system was developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Emory University. The paper "PVM: A framework for parallel distributed computing" by V. S. Sunderam [118] provides an overview of the development and implementation of the PVM system. Other articles of interest include "Visualization and debugging in a heterogeneous environment" by Beguelin et al. [10] and "Experiences with network-based concurrent computing on the PVM system" by Geist and Sunderam [41]. The PVM distribution is available electronically from www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm.