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Main Title Parallel Groundwater Computations Using PVM.
Author Eppstein, M. J. ; Guarnaccia, J. F. ; Dougherty, D. E. ;
CORP Author Vermont Univ., Burlington. Coll. of Engineering and Mathematics. ;Colorado Univ. at Denver. ;Wyoming Univ., Laramie. ;Notre Dame Univ., IN.;Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Lab., Ada, OK.
Publisher 1992
Year Published 1992
Report Number EPA-R-818955; EPA/600/A-92/157;
Stock Number PB92-206572
Additional Subjects Ground water ; Computation ; Multiprocessing ; Concurrent processing ; Software tools ; UNIX(Operating system) ; Interprocessor communication ; Computer applications ; Two phase flow ; Porous materials ; Mathematical models ; Algorithms ; Reprints ; PVM(Parallel Virtual Machine)
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NTIS  PB92-206572 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) is a software tool to allow concurrent computing on heterogeneous networked computers via Unix sockets using UPD datagrams. Applications programmers exploit multiprocessing by explicit high-level C or FORTRAN calls to interprocessor communication routines, as in a Portable Instrumented Communication Library (PICL) or the compilers of MIMD vendors. These capabilities allow unused cycles in a network to be utilized and parallel implementations of applications to be developed and tested. The paper reports an implementation of a PVM-FORTRAN code for two-phase flow in porous media using PVM on both homogeneous and heterogeneous processor networks. Each processor runs the same source code asynchronously using the single-program-multiple-data (SPMD) approach and synchronizes at convergence tests.