System Requirements

PADE is designed to execute on workstations running the Unix operating system with the X Window System. PADE operates on only one node of the virtual machine, called the development host, therefore the requirements of this workstation are greater than those of the other nodes of the virtual machine.

The development host uses the following software:

• PADE (required). This is included in the PADE package.

• CAML Utilities (required). These are included in the PADE package.

• PVM (required, version 3.0 or later). The Parallel Virtual Machine message-passing library is a software system that enables a collection of heterogeneous computers to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational resource. This software can be obtained by anonymous ftp to
  ftp://www.netlib.org/pvm3

• Tcl/Tk (required, version 8.0 of Tcl/Tk. PADE will not run with earlier versions.) Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an embeddable scripting language written by John Ousterhout of the University of California at Berkeley. ToolKit (Tk) is an X11 toolkit that provides the Motif look and feel and is implemented in Tcl . Both of these programs are available by anonymous ftp at the following site.
  http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/

• XPVM (Optional). This is a graphical console and monitor for PVM. It provides a graphical interface to the PVM console commands and information, along with several animated views to monitor the execution of PVM programs. These views provide information about the interactions among tasks in a parallel PVM program, to assist in debugging and performance tuning. XPVM is available by anonymous ftp from the address.
  http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/xpvm

• Web browser (Optional). PADE's on-line help and local manual browsing capabilities require a program that can interpret hypertext markup language (HTML) and access documents on the Web.

The machines in the virtual machine that are not used as a development host only require the following software packages:

• CAML Utilities

• PVM