Definitions for "PVM "
Keywords:  polyvinyl, methyl, ether
Polyvinyl methyl ether
Keywords:  mpi, virtual, spawn, oak, parallel
PVM is a portable message-passing programming system, designed to link separate host machines to form a ``virtual machine'' which is a single, manageable computing resource. The virtual machine can be composed of hosts of varying types, in physically remote locations.
Parallel Virtual Machine -- an industry standard API for programming distributed memory computers.
Another message passing library that has been widely used. It was originally developed to run on collections of workstations and it can dynamically spawn or delete processes running a task. PVM now largely has been replaced by MPI.