Abstract

A network of SUN workstations was configured into a virtual parallel computer using the PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) parallel programming toolkit from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Computationally intensive engineering applications written in Fortran and C may be distributed over this network to significantly improve the performance of such codes. A boundary-element formulation of charge transport in a photoconductive media was modified for parallel execution using the PVM system. This application was distributed across a local-area network of six SUN SPARC Stations. Depending upon the size of the problem, the application ran three to five times faster than on a single workstation.

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