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Foil 128 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
Advantages
It is fairly small, with a limited user routine library, yet it is sufficient to implement any parallel programming scheme.
There is a large and growing user base.
There are tools (XPVM) for debugging, performance analysis and visualisation.
Also, continued upgrades are expected in the areas of visualisation, fault tolerance, multimedia applications and performance optimisation for specific architectures.

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