Parallel virtual machine

PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE Burhanettin DURMUŞ Electric & Electronic Engineering, M.S. Thesis, 2003 Thesis Supervisor : Asst.Prof.Dr. Ahmet ÖZMEN SUMMARY Some applications require high performance computing environment. These applications can be real-time control systems, soft real-time simulators or long running non- interactive compute bound tasks. In this paper, a parallel virtual machine (PVM) and its graphical interface (XPVM) have been introduced to meet high performance computing demands, parallel programs have been run in distributed computing media that is formed with PVM, performance by paralellizm is examined with measuring the execution times. PVM is a software package designed as a library extension to an operating system. A virtual parallel system can easily be build from networked computers using PVM. These computers can also be heterogeneous according to their architecture and operating systems. Therefore, PVM makes it possible to build affordable high performance computers for universities and research companies using ordinary workstations and personal computers. Key Words: Distributed Computing, Distributed Shared Memory, Interface, Massage Passing, Network, Parallel Virtual Machine, XPVM