You must set the environment variable PVM_ROOT to ${PREFIX}/pvm3 in your startup files (.cshrc, .profile) on all machines in the cluster. In addition, you may want to add the lines contained in ${PREFIX}/pvm3/lib/cshrc.stub to the system .cshrc. You can specify each host's run path in your pvmhosts file like so: hostname ep=/usr/pkg/bin This allows you to point different achitecture types to various sets of shared or local binaries. See pvmd(1) for more information.