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As summarized in Section 2.1 above, PADE requires a number of
external programs to exercise its full functionality. These programs will
be well-known to most experienced Unix system administrators. We do not
provide documentation for them here, nor does PADE install package provide
any support for installing them. However, for the sake of completeness we
give here the locations of their Internet repositories.
- PVM - The Parallel Virtual Machine message-passing library
is a software system that enables a collection of heterogeneous
computers to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational
resource. The most recent version as of this writing is 3.3.6. This
software can be obtained by anonymous ftp to
ftp://www.netlib.org/pvm3
Installation of this software on all nodes of the virtual
machine is essential.
- Tcl/Tk - Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an embeddable scripting
language written by John Ousterhout of the University of California
at Berkeley. ToolKit (Tk) is an X11 toolkit that provides the Motif
look and feel and is implemented in Tcl. Both of these programs are
available by anonymous ftp at the following site.
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/tcl
PADE currently runs under Tcl version 7.3 and Tk version 3.6.
- XPVM - XPVM is a graphical console and monitor for PVM. It
provides a graphical interface to the PVM console commands and
information, along with several animated views to monitor the execution
of PVM programs. These views provide information about the interactions
among tasks in a parallel PVM program, to assist in debugging and
performance tuning. XPVM is available by anonymous ftp from the
address.
ftp://www.netlib.org/pvm3/xpvm
This program is also a Tcl/Tk application and will definitely be
compatible with PADE only if it runs under the same versions of
Tcl and Tk.
- World-Wide-Web browser - PADE's on-line help and local
manual browsing capabilities require a program that can interpret
hypertext markup language (HTML) and access documents on the
World-Wide-Web. There are many WWW browsers, and PADE can be configured
to use any that run under X-windows. Two common browsers are: Mosaic,
produced by the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA),
is available at the following address:
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/Mosaic ,
and Netscape, produced by Netscape Communications Corporation, is
available at
ftp://ftp.mcom.com .
Mosaic is set as PADE's default WWW browser; instructions on
reconfiguring this preference are contained in Chap. 5.
Mosaic and Netscape are the only WWW browsers that have been tested
with PADE.
- Xab3 - Xab3 is a set of tools which provide for the
visual (X based) analysis and debugging of PVM programs. The basic
idea behind Xab3 is to instrument every PVM call so it sends a
message to a monitoring process which can either display the event or
save it in a file for later analysis. The user should take care that
the version of Xab3 currently installed is interoperable with
the installed version of PVM.
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Fri Mar 31 20:30:34 EST 1995