NDLI: PvmJobs: a generic parallel jobs library for PVM

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Author	Ong, H.H. Ajwa, I.A. Wang, P.S.
Copyright Year	1997
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Kent State Univ., OH, USA (Ong, H.H.)
Abstract	PvmJobs is a general bag-of-jobs library for PVM that works with any user created job structure in a master/slave paradigm. A master can spawn slave processes, schedule and dispatch jobs to slaves, coordinate and synchronize the activities. A slave process obtains a job from the master, performs a set of prescribed tasks, returns results to the master, and obtains the next job. Slaves are organized into separate disjoint groups, called bags. Each bag has one master, its own set of slaves, and jobs to perform. A master may use one or more bags simultaneously, and a slave can be a master as well. PvmJobs provides a simple FIFO job scheduling mechanism which can be easily replaced by application-defined priority-driven scheduling. The package is written in C and is easy to use by anyone who knows PVM. PvmJobs is well documented and is used for applications with a master/slave message-passing paradigm. The package has been used in various typical parallel computations and applied in the parallel implementation of the Grobner bases algorithm and the characteristic sets method. The design and implementation of PvmJobs is presented. The library routines and their usage are described. Examples are given. General requirements of the library from applications are carefully explained.
Starting Page	165
Ending Page	172
File Size	693536
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780337255
DOI	10.1109/NAECON.1997.617776
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1997-07-14
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Master-slave Scheduling Concurrent computing Distributed computing Mathematics Computer bugs Packaging Software libraries Computer science Telephony
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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