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Foil 130 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
Easy definition and modification of your parallel virtual machine
Arbitrary control and dependency structures - your application "decides":
- where and when tasks are spawned and terminated
- which machines to add or delete from your parallel virtual machine
- how tasks communicate and/or synchronise with each other.

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