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Foil 129 Advantages/Disadvantages to Using PVM

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 Advantages
2 Portability: Probably the most portable message passing library available.
3 Promises of distributed computing for the future's computing requirements
4 Scalable Parallelism
5 Easy to install and use
6 Public domain software
7 Popular - probably the most widely used parallel MP library
8 Local, wide-area or combination of networks
9 Flexible
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