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Foil 132 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 Disadvantages
2 Network latencies can cause problems in applications that have a high communication to computation ratio.
3 There is as yet no automation of the compilation of different object modules on different architectures, though this may be added in the future.
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