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Foil 127 PVM - History

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox


1 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.
2 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.
3 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.

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