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PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE

Specialty Definition: PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE

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Computing

Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) 1. A software system 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 the Emory University. Home (http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/). Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.parallel.pvm. 2. The intermediate language used by the Gambit compiler for Scheme. [And Multilisp?] (1995-01-30). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Specialty Definition: Parallel Virtual Machine

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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 the 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

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Parallel Virtual Machine."

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Crosswords: PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE

Specialty definitions using "PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE": PVM ♦ Virtual Machine. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE

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Books

  • Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface: 5th European Pvm/Mpi User's Group Meeting, Liverpool, Uk, September 7-9, 1998: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1497) (reference)

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Alternative Orthography: PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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