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PVMmake
is a PVM application, which uses the PVM message-passing
library to perform two basic operations:
- File transfer -- PVMmake
can send an arbitrary text (ASCII) file
from one arbitrary host to another arbitrary host.
- Command execution -- PVMmake
can issue an arbitrary shell
command on an arbitrary host. Thus PVMmake
can execute Unix
commands and shell scripts as well as compiled programs. Furthermore,
the output of these commands, scripts, or programs can be piped back
to be viewed on the node where PVMmake
was launched.
The fact that PVMmake
performs just these two basic operations,
makes the program very flexible, powerful, and very easy to use. PADE
can be viewed as being essentially a shell for running PVMmake
.
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