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Foil 123 PVM - What is it?

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software system to link clusters of machines.
It enables a heterogeneous collection of computers (the virtual machine) to be programmed as a single machine.
It provides the user with process control and message passing calls for communication between tasks running on different hosts.

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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