              Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)
              software for OS2 2.x platform.


  PVM is a software system that enables a collection of heterogeneous
computers to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational
resource.

  The individual computers may be shared- or local-memory multiprocessors,
vector supercomputers, specialized graphics engines, or scalar
workstations, that may be interconnected by a variety of networks,
such as ethernet, FDDI.

  User programs written in C, C++ or Fortran access PVM through library
routines.


   For various technical reasons explained later you are strongly
urged to move pvm3os2.zip file to the root directory of any drive
and unzip it there. It will create \pvm3 directory structure plus
\tmp directory (also explained later). In order to be able to
unzip it you will need around 3 Mb of free disk space.

   Please be aware that to sensibly use this software you need to
have TCP/IP v2.0 installed and running (base package is enough
if you don't want to recompile PVM, otherwise you need also
development package). You also have to have emx development system
installed (preferably latest version 0.8h) if you want to do anything
more then just to play with precompiled example programs. Therefore
I am not including emx.dll that is needed for running programs compiled
with emx+gcc.


                                       Jan Ftacnik
                                ftacnikj@fnal05.fnal.gov
