Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:49:12 07/29/98
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On July 29, 1998 at 16:07:12, Nobuhiro Yoshimura wrote: >Can anyone explain to me what is the "PVM"? >Thank you in advance. > >Nobuhiro Yoshimura stands for "Parallel Virtual Machine"... it is a software package/library that you can use to spawn processes on remote machines, as well as send messages between these processes. Developed at Oak Ridge Lab, it is similar to another common package "DCE" which is "Distributed Computing Environment." mostly just a huge library of procedure calls to handle message-passing in a architecturally neutral sort of way...
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