Windows98系統下之分散式運算

Abstract

The development of PVM, the Parallel Virtual Machine, has received more and more emphases form scientific and engineering sectors. The power of a PVM is that, as a sing virtual machine, it can consist of computer with different architectures including workstations and peils withirtel or alpha chips, and running under Unix or Linux operating systems,even under winders NT and 98.Currently,most institutions participating in the PVM projects favor the Unix-like systems, as PVM is most readily implemented in these systems. On the other hand, running PVM on a local windows network maybe more attractive since the windows system is more popular. In this paper, we would like to discuss the process of building a local windows NT/98 pc farm using currently available facility,and to observe the performance when SPMD and MPMD programs are excuted in this system. At this stage,4 pc are enrolled in our PVM,and considerable saving on CPU time has been achieved.We will add more peils PVM to do high performance scientific computing.