Abstract

PM2 (Parallel Multithreaded Machine) is a distributed multithreaded programming environment designed to efficiently support irregular parallel applications on distributed architectures of SMP nodes. This manual presents an installer's, user's and developer's guide for PM2.

If you have any questions concerning PM2, please, send an email to pm2-users@lists.gforge.inria.fr. However, please first make sure that your problem is not already listed in the Frequently Asked Questions Section 6.2.

The latest version of this document is available from the following URL: http://runtime.bordeaux.inria.fr/pm2-doc/

Keywords: RPC, Communication, Thread, Distributed Programming.

3 Discovering PM2

3.1 Compiling your own PM2 program

3.2 Initializing and terminating a PM2 program

3.2.1 The header files

3.2.2 Initialization

3.2.3 Termination

3.3 A minimal Madeleine program: Hello World!

3.3.1 Informations about the application

3.3.2 Packing and unpacking messages

3.3.3 Sending and receiving messages

3.4 A minimal Marcel program: Sum of the first n integers

3.4.1 The marcel_main function

3.4.2 Thread management

3.4.3 Semaphores and mutexes

3.5 A minimal μPM2 program: Hello World!

3.5.1 The pm2_main function

3.5.2 Termination

3.5.3 Who's who?

3.6 A minimal μPM2 program: Hello World! using Remote Procedure Calls

3.6.1 Invoking a remote service

3.6.2 Passing parameters

3.6.3 Packing and unpacking data

3.6.4 Threaded services

3.7 A minimal NewMadeleine program: Hello World!

3.7.1 Initialisation and termination

3.7.2 Communication interface

3.7.3 The MPI interface

3.8 Leonie

3.8.1 The configuration files

3.8.2 Starting a PM2 application using Leonie

5 Mastering PM2

5.1 Mastering Marcel

6 Additional PM2 material

6.1 Synopsis of PM2 scripts

6.1.1 pm2-conf

6.1.2 pm2-load

6.2 Frequently asked questions

7 Reading on PM2

NEXT: Introducing PM2

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