PVM - History

The first version of PVM was written during Summer of ‘89 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was not released, but was used in applications at the lab.

Version 2 was written from scratch during Feb ‘91 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, n and released in March of that year. It was intended to clean up and stabilise the system so that external users could benefit.

Version 3 was redesigned from scratch, and a complete rewrite started in Sep ‘92, with first release of the software in March ‘93. While similar in spirit to version 2, version 3 includes features that did not fit the old framework - most importantly fault tolerance, better portability and scalability.