Parallel Virtual Machine

The Parallel Virtual Machine ( PVM abbreviation, Eng. Parallel Virtual Machine ) is a public-domain software package that can be achieved with the distributed on a standard PC applications.

The networked PCs can be used under PVM as a large parallel computers. PVM was developed by the University of Tennessee (and others) and is available for various operating systems (Unix, Linux, Windows ) and programming languages ​​( including C, C , Fortran, Perl, Python, Java ) are available.

PVM is a diagram based on the Communicating Sequential Processes software architecture, which makes it possible to perform calculations on the distributed, heterogeneous, loose -coupled computer systems quasi- parallel.