PARALLEL PROCESSING - A CASE STUDY OF PVM APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE

Nurul Athirah Abdul Rahim #1, Mohamed Faidz Mohammed Said #2

# Faculty of Computer & Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA
70800 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, MALAYSIA

1 athirahrahim9502@gmail.com
2 faidzms@ieee.org

 
Abstract—Nowadays computer modelling has been used regularly throughout the geosciences in an effort to produce synthetic data for comparison with real data. Parallel programming model itself is an abstraction of parallel computer architecture. Parallel computing itself is a kind of computation in which numerous calculations or the implementation of processes are carried out concurrently. Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) system uses the message-passing model to let programmers to exploit dispersed computing across wide diversity of computer categories. PVM is an alternative which is cheap, useful and manageable. Besides that, by using PVM it can integrate current departmental services without experiencing additional hardware costs. Virtual machine or also known as VM can appraise enormous expressions and it was written in numerically fast language. Furthermore, this method can express the parallel computation of a single phase space point in an easy and understandable ways. The objective of this research is to study the application and the use of PVM in parallel computing. The result shows that PVM has many advantages and also has some disadvantages.

Keywords: Parallel Virtual Machine, API



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