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Revision as of 18:46, 17 November 2004
The Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) is a software tool for parallel networking of computers. It is designed to allow a network of heterogeneous machines to be used as a single distributed parallel processor.
PVM was developed by the University of Tennessee, The Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Emory University. The first version was written at ORNL in 1989, and after being rewritten by University of Tennessee, version 2 was released in March 1991. Version 3 was released in March 1993, and supported fault tolerance and better portability.
Though PVM is not being actively developed, it was a significant step towards modern trends in distributed processing and grid computing.
See also
- Virtual machine
- CORBA
- Globus_Alliance
- Occam
- Linda
- Calculus of Communicating Systems
- Calculus of Broadcasting Systems
- MPI
References
This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.