Object-Oriented Distributed Computing
on the PVM

Chong-wei Xu
Mathematics and Computer Science
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA 30460-8093
xuc@gsu.cs.gasou.edu

The Parallel/Distributed Computing technique was created to solve the hardware crisis, which is that VLSI techniques cannot further increase hardware speed []. The Object-Oriented technique was created to solve the software crisis that is due to most software being delivered late and over budget []. A new approach which combines these two techniques, named Object-Oriented Distributed Computing (OODC), should be developed to further improve the Parallel Computing technique. Many parallel object-oriented languages have been developed [], [], especially the CC++ language [], [] which provides a nice tool for object-oriented parallel programming.

On the other hand, the popular Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) system [] is offering an opportunity to bring advanced distributed computing power to real-world scientists and engineers by providing portable implementations of parallel algorithms in a usable form []. Taking advantages of PVM and forming an OODC system on a PVM is an attempt to make an easy tool for object-oriented parallel programming.

In order to provide this tool to our students as a reference and encourage a research on this line, the OODC source code and an application example are published in this page. Please send your comments, suggestions, and modifications to

Chongwei Xu, xuc@gsu.cs.gasou.edu

Thanks.

Chongwei Xu

The source code of the oopvm.h
The source code of the class CCMedian.h
The source code of the class CMatrix.h
The source code of the class CCombin.h
The source code of the master program
The source code of the slave program

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