NEWS ---- 1.3.0 is a completely user-contributed release! Large parts of Parallel::Pvm were rewritten by Ulrich Pfeifer, while preserving the original API. (And a great job he did!) - unpack() now accepts an extra parameter for the size of the message, removing the previous 100.000 char limit. - The pvm group functions are now implemented. - Memory leaks in the config(), tasks() and hostsync() functions were fixed. - There is now also a very nice setup for test scripts - they reside in the "t" directory. This work was sponsored by Neopoly AG. Benjamin Holzman contributed support for the pmv_start_pvmd() API call. PERL-PVM -------- This is a perl extension for the parallel virtual machine (PVM) message-passing system. Before you begin installation you must have already installed PVM (the most recent version of PVM may be found at http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/). You must also set the environment variables setenv PVM_ROOT setenv PVM_ARCH `$PVM_ROOT/lib/pvmgetarch` For a correct installation you will also need perl5.005 or greater. Once all the preliminaries have been done, the installation sequence is as follows: tar xvf Parallel-Pvm-1.3.0.tar cd Parallel-Pvm-1.3.0 Have a look into Makefile.PL to see if you have to make any changes. Afterwhich do perl5 Makefile.PL make make test make install Please read the man page, ie. perldoc Parallel::Pvm Any questions, critisims or suggestions are welcome. - eddie Copyright (c) 1996 Edward Walker (c) 2000,2001 Denis Leconte. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. ------------------------------------------------------------- Current maintainer: Denis Leconte Email: denis_leconte@geocities.com WWW: http://www.geocities.com/denis_leconte Original author: Dr Edward Walker National Supercomputing Research Centre 81, Science Park Drive Singapore 0511 Email: edward@nsrc.nus.sg WWW: http://www.nsrc.nus.sg/STAFF/edward