Taskers and General Resource Managers: PVM Supporting DCE Process Management

We discuss the use of PVM as a system that supports General Process Management for DCEs. This system allows PVM to initialise MPI and other meta-computing systems. The impetus for such a system has come from the PVMPI project which required complex taskers and resource managers to be constructed. Such development is normally too time consuming for PVM users, due to the in-depth knowledge of PVM's internals, which are required to facilitate such systems correctly and reliably.