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PVMaple: A Distributed Approach to Cooperative Work of Maple Processes

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Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface (EuroPVM/MPI 2000)

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We study the issue of interconnecting computer algebra system Maple and the message passing environment PVM. A prototype system, namely PVMaple, is presented. The system allows to create concurrent tasks and have them executed by Maple kernels running on different machines of a network.

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  1. Western University of Timişoara, B-dul V.Pârvan 4, 1900, Timişoara, Romania

    Dana Petcu

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  1. Innovative Computing Lab., University of Tennessee, 104 Yres Hall, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  2. MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute, P.O. Box 63, Budapest, 1518, Hungary

    Peter Kacsuk  & Norbert Podhorszki  & 

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Petcu, D. (2000). PVMaple: A Distributed Approach to Cooperative Work of Maple Processes. In: Dongarra, J., Kacsuk, P., Podhorszki, N. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1908. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45255-9_31

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