PVM - Parallel Virtual Machine
PVM is a software package that allows a collection of serial, parallel and vector computers on a network to be managed as one large computing resource.
Poor man's supercomputer
- High performance from network of workstations
- Off-hours crunching
Metacomputer linking multiple supercomputers
- Very high performance
- Computing elements adapted to subproblems
- Visualization
Educational tool
- Simple to install
- Simple to learn