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.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Anand Kumria
.\" Written for Debian and released with the xpvm package
.\" License terms are for the xpvm package
.TH xpvm 1 "1st, December 1999" "xpvm" "Debian"
.SH NAME
xpvm \- graphical console and monitor for PVM
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xpvm
.RB [\|
.IR hostfile
.RB \|]
.RB [\| \ \-P\ \||\| \ \-O\ \|]
.RB [\| \-T
.IR trace\ \|]
.RB [\| \-N
.IR name\ \|]
.RB [\| \-M
.IR nbytes\ \|]
.RB [\| \ \-Hsetv\ \|]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B xpvm
is a tool to monitor PVM and applications using it. It provides a
graphical interface to the PVM console commands and information,
along with several animated views to monitor the execution of PVM
programs. These views provide information about the interactions
among tasks in a parallel PVM program, to assist in debugging and
performance tuning.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-H
display usage information
.TP
.B \-v
verbose operation
.TP
.B \-P
start
.B xpvm
in playback mode
.TP
.B \-O
start
.B xpvm
in overwrite mode
.TP
.B \-S
dump SDDF trace file headers and exit.
.TP
.B \-e
dump raw PVM event text
.TP
.B \-t
text mode, no animation in views
.TP
.I hostfile
.B xpvm
will normally use the file
.I $HOME/.xpvmhosts
to create and configure the pvm. You can override this behaviour by specifying
.I hostfile
on the command line.
.TP
.BI \-T\ trace
.B xpvm
will normally create and store a trace file in the
user's home
directory. To have the
.I trace
file stored in some other location, use this option.
.TP
.BI \-N\ name
use the specified
.I name
as the local hostname
.TP
.BI \-M\ nbytes
set the default message size to
.I nbytes
.SH FILES
.B xpvm
will check for the existence of
.I $HOME/.xpvm_hosts
and use it to configure the list of hostnames available.
.SH SEE ALSO
pvm(1), xpvm_hosts(5)
.SH BUGS
None, of course.
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Anand Kumria <akumria@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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