parallel virtual machine

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

<parallel, networking, tool> (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.

(http://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)