Parallel and Distributed Programming Using C++

Chapter 6. Adding Parallel Programming Capabilities to C++ Through the PVM

	“We have thus divided our problem into two parts. The child-programme and the education process. These two remain very closely connected. We cannot expect to find a good child-machine at the first attempt. One must experiment with teaching one such machine, and see how well it learns . . .”
	--Alan Turing, Can A Machine Think?

In this Chapter

• The Classic Parallelism Models Supported by PVM

• The PVM Library for C++

• The Basic Mechanics of the PVM

• Accessing Standard Input (stdin) and Standard Output (stdout) within PVM Tasks

• Summary

The PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software system that provides the software developer with the facilities to write and run programs that exploit ...