Robert Manchek

Oh, hi. Let me tell you about myself. But first, let's get some administrative stuff out of the way.

Email address:

manchek@CS.UTK.EDU

Snailmail:

Computer Science Department

104 Ayres Hall

University of Tennessee

Knoxville, TN 37996-1301

217 Ayres Hall

(615)974-DREK or (615)974-8295

Ok, so what do I do with my time besides wondering what we're having for lunch this Friday?

Well, I work as a research associate in the ICL group at the University of Tennessee . There, I sometimes get to write things like PVM. What's that, you may ask?

Parallel Virtual Machine is a generic message-passing system composed of a programming library and manager processes. It ties together separate physical machines (possibly 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 want to know more about PVM, well just read on...

You can check 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.

An html version of the PVM Frequently Asked Question list.

XPVM is a graphical PVM console with lots of angry fruit salad.

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.

There are several PVM-related tech reports from OGI about various topics such as process migration and a VMS port of PVM.

PVM is available in book form 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 or browse their catalog for related books.

I used to build lots of random hardware but, sadly, I don't seem to do that anymore. Whatever happend to the good old days.

Gosh, I wonder what the temperature in Boulder, CO is?

Or, here?

Some people who don't know me well ask how I like living in Knoxville. Well, I have to say it's better than sucking dead baby pigs through a straw.

The Top Five Reasons I've Been in Knoxville Too Long

5. I heard it was going to snow and rushed out to buy 4 dozen eggs

4. My pet mold was killed by frost

3. Heard the new 10-plex cinema opened in Farragut, and went by to check it out

2. I'm starting to drive like I live here

1. I watched Roseanne and laughed

Here's a gratuitous picture of a nice old French TV:

See ya. Be excellent to each other.