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- fu_fish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hardly anybody uses PVM any more. There was an attempt within the past decade to revive it, but that effort is dead now too. I work with some of the initial developers of PVM and even most of them have moved on now. If you want to setup a cluster, you're better off installing MPI, since that's what almost all modern codes use. You can try some newer technologies like MOSIX, UPC, and Co-array Fortran, but not many codes/architectures take advantage of these. PVM has some great features that its competitors still don't do, but that's not enough to keep people using it. PVM is all but dead. Please leave it to rest in peace.
- killtherat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>>>I think I made a site liek that in 5th grade.
Actually, I've been using PVM for years, and that's pretty much the same site they've always had. So it's a good chance they actually made that it when you were actually in the fifth grade ;-) (research scientists arn't big on web site updates)
In fact, aside from a few bug fixes about a year ago, there hasn't been many changes to the package in quite a while. And there's been a big industry push toward MPI rather then PVM. I'm curious as to why this is getting dugg now. - Crazyguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can you access this network over the internet sucurely. Would a VPN connection work?
- ChrisF79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know, I'm going to digg this one just for the use of the tag. That flashing "new" caught my eye and I would have completely missed it had it not been for that tag.
Digg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hope they don't go and make an exe out of it. It's too much fun to force the Windows folks to compile source code for the first time in their lives ;D
- FunkyWitDaSysTm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i wonder how long it will take before this is simply an .exe install package that will lead through a simple (with advanced options, of course) setup/install program.
it would be really nice to come into the office, run a quick installer on all the office puters, and then, whenever someone's out of the office, i can take their computrs over and use it to distribute my tasks... - FlyingAvatar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow, their website looks like it was made a the dawn of the web.
- EdLesMann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does this bother anyone else? "For those who need to know, PVM is Y2K compliant. PVM does not use the date anywhere in its internals."
How old is this website anyway?? It claims to have been updated recently...
I think I will pass on digging this as there are alternatives that I think are a bit more updated and powerful (compute grids anyone? check out Globus http://www.globus.org/ . IBM is pouring money into that project and the results are very nice, plus the documentation is nicer.) - rafuzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0their site looks like crap because they spend their time making software that works, instead of making software that doesn't work look spiffy.
- sam54m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"^^^ I think I made a site liek that in 5th grade."
lol - globlin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How does this one differ from Xen,Vmware and Linux-vserver?
- cygnusx-1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Made with MS Notepad" and proud of it.
- okvol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey, give these guys a break. Remember, if they spent $$ to make the site better, it would be from the American tax payers. What is cool is the American govt. giving away the software.
- iamagrenade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Unfortunately for those who don't want to see an installer for Windows, they've already got one listed under "Source Code". here's the direct link:
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~sscott/PVM/Software/ParallelVirtualMachine3.4.3.zip - xutopia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In case you wondered this only benefits very few people directly. PVMs are useful in academic circles where crunching data requires plenty of computational power. Setting up twelve computers together will not help your Spreadsheet application feel any snappier.
- jeffl8n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The website looks old because it's old news. PVM has been out for quite a while...
- roy182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This idea is so old, it makes me want to cry. DiggCrap.
- ptknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"For those who need to know, PVM is Y2K compliant"
Good to know that since IT HAPPENED 5 YEARS AGO! I'm going to email them today's date - scottedu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember a long time ago when we were more interested in the information a website contained than how it looked.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I wonder if you could hook up a bunch of old machines in parallel and run windows like a newer one.
- terminalfreeze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0FlyingAvatar Said "Wow, their website looks like it was made a the dawn of the web."
Hahahaha, that's what websites looked like? - barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Their site looks like crap?
- MikeEnIke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0^^^ I think I made a site liek that in 5th grade.
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