1.4   Portability

• PVM source code is very portable across Unix machines, porting generally means setting options
• PVM currently runs on

  80386/486 with Linux	Alliant FX/8
  DEC Alpha/OSF-1	BBN TC2000
  DEC Microvax	Convex
  DECstation	Cray YMP, C90, T3D
  DG Avion	IBM 3090
  HP 9000/300	Intel Paragon
  HP 9000 PA-RISC	Intel iPSC/2
  IBM RS/6000	Intel iPSC/860
  IBM RT	Kendall Square KSR-1
  NeXT	MasPar MP-1, MP-2
  Silicon Graphics IRIS	Sequent Symmetry
  Multiprocessor SGI	Stardent Tritan
  Sun 3	Thinking Machines CM-2, CM-5
  Sun 4, Sparc

• Portable to
  • Monoprocessor machines
  • Shared memory mutliprocessor machines
  • Parallel mutliprocessors