PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer. Thus large computational problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and memory of many computers. The software is very portable. The source, which is available free thru netlib, has been compiled on everything from laptops to CRAYs.
PVM enables users to exploit their existing computer hardware to solve much larger problems at minimal additional cost. Hundreds of sites around the world are using PVM to solve important scientific, industrial, and medical problems in addition to PVM's use as an educational tool to teach parallel programming. With tens of thousands of users, PVM has become the de facto standard for distributed computing world-wide.
EuroPVM/MPI is the most prominent meeting dedicated to the latest developments of PVM and MPI such as new support tools, implementation and applications using these interfaces. The EuroPVM/MPI meeting naturally encourages discussions of new message-passing and other parallel and distributed programming paradigms beyond MPI and PVM.
The 14th European PVM/MPI Users' Group Meeting will be a forum for users and developers of PVM, MPI, and other message-passing programming environments. Through the presentation of contributed papers, vendor presentations, poster presentations and invited talks, attendees will have the opportunity to share ideas and experiences to contribute to the improvement and furthering of message-passing and related parallel programming paradigms.
Topics of interest for the meeting include, but are not limited to:
This year special emphasis will be put on large-scale issues, such as those related to hardware and interconnect techologies, or the potential or demonstrated shortcomings of PVM or MPI.
As in the preceding years, the special session 'ParSim' will focus on numerical simulation for parallel engineering environments.
EuroPVM/MPI 2007 will also hold the new 'Outstanding Papers' session introduced in 2006, where the best papers selected by the program committee will be presented.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Contributors are invited to submit a full paper as a PDF (or Postscript) document not exceeding 8 pages in English (2 pages for poster abstracts and Late and Breaking Results). The title page should contain an abstract of at most 100 words and five specific keywords. The paper needs to be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines [2]. The usage of LaTeX for preparation of the contribution as well as the submission in camera ready format is strongly recommended. Style files can be found at the URL [2]. New work that is not yet mature for a full paper, short observations, and similar brief announcements are invited for the poster session. Contributions to the poster session should be submitted in the form of a two-page abstract. All these contributions will be fully peer reviewed by the program committee.
Submissions to the special session 'Current Trends in Numerical Simulation for Parallel Engineering Environments' (ParSim 2007) are handled and reviewed by the respective session chairs. For more information please refer to the ParSim website.
All accepted submissions are expected to be presented at the conference by one of the authors, which requires registration for the conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of full papers and poster abstracts | May 7th, 2007 |
Notification of authors | June 11th, 2007 |
Camera-ready papers | July 2nd, 2007 |
Submission of Late and Breaking Results | September 15th, 2007 |
Tutorials | September 30th, 2007 |
Conference | October 1st-3rd, 2007 |
HTML version of MIT Press book:
PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine
A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing
How to order your own copy ($17.95) from MIT.
HTML Man pages for PVM 3.3.
XPVM 1.1 Tech Report (3 MB postscript).