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

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