Email address:
Snailmail:
If I had to guess, I'd say my new email address would be
manchek@icemail.iced.com
Well, I worked as a research associate in the
ICL
group at the
University of Tennessee
.
There, I sometimes got to write things like PVM.
"What was that?" you may have asked...
Parallel Virtual Machine is a message-passing system
composed of a programming library and manager processes.
It ties together separate physical machines (which can be of different
types), providing communication and control between the subprograms
and detection of machine failures.
The resulting virtual machine appears as a single,
manageable resource.
PVM is portable to a wide variety of
machine architectures and operating systems,
including workstations, supercomputers, PCs and
multiprocessors.
If you would have wanted to have known more about PVM, well you could have just had a day...
You could have checked out PVM
in its
happy home
on Netlib.
There's
source code, documentation and related materials
such as tutorials and user group presentations.
The official
PVM home page
is at Oak Ridge National Lab.
Here is an html version of the
PVM Frequently Asked Question list.
XPVM is a graphical PVM console
with lots of angry fruit salad.
Guaranteed to suck every last cycle out of your machine like a
vacuum cleaner with a fresh bag.
There's a nifty
PVM Introduction Page
at KSU
.
And a
Demo page
at CMU
with hypertext man pages and live baby PVM programs you can hold and pet.
Actually, I think someone left the lights on all night
and they're kinda fried and dessicated now.
There are several
PVM-related tech reports from
OGI
about various topics such as process migration and a VMS port of PVM.
A PVM book is available from MIT Press.
Check it out, you can
trash around in
an html version of the book
on netlib or
order the real thing from
MIT Press.
Aren't software disclaimers great? My favorite one goes something like this (translated somewhat): "We are not liable for anything bad that happens because you use this thing that we're selling. We don't even claim to know what it's good for, but we can suggest some uses. Also, it's ours and you owe us money for it because some guy with a huge right side who works here thought it up and typed it in. But, if you use it and get sued because it turns out somebody else had the idea first, that's too bad. Be sure to apply for any necessary licenses that might apply where you're currently sitting."
Gosh, I wondered what the
temperature
in Boulder, CO
was?
Or, here?
And I wondered how this was done?
Ooh, I wanted one too.
The cleanest city I ever saw was Phoenix, Arizona; the dirtiest, Indianapolis, Indiana; the ugliest - with an intense, concentrated, degrading ugliness - Knoxville, Tennessee. - John Gunther.
I must have gone.