Advantages/Disadvantages to Using PVM
Advantages/Disadvantages to Using PVM
Advantages
- Portability: Probably the most portable message passing library available.
- Promises of distributed computing for the future's computing requirements
- Scalable Parallelism
- Easy to install and use
- Public domain software
- Popular - probably the most widely used parallel MP library
- Local, wide-area or combination of networks
- Flexible