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Foil 124 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
The individual computers in the virtual machine may be shared- or local-memory multiprocessors, vector supercomputers, specialised graphics engines, or scalar workstations, that may be interconnected by a variety of networks, such as ethernet or FDDI.
User programs written in C, C++ or Fortran access PVM through library routines.

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