Nonportable PVM Functions

Nonportable PVM Functions

The PVM routines listed in this section cannot be translated directly into MPI routines. These same routines are shown in Table B-1 with the notation "PVM routine is nonportable," to distinguish them from the PVM routines that, while they have no MPI counterpart, are easily removed in the MPI environment.

If the PVM program in question uses any of the following PVM functions, or uses dynamic groups, it cannot be directly ported to an MPI program:

pvm_kill()
pvm_notify()
pvm_recvf()
pvm_reg_hoster()
pvm_reg_rm()
pvm_reg_tasker()
pvm_sendsig()

You must change the PVM program to eliminate the use of these functions before it can be ported to an MPI program. In some cases, this may not be possible. Note that most of these functions are available in the PVM domain only as C routines, and are not commonly used.