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Paraller::Pvm is a perl interface to the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)
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Message Passing System.
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The PVM message passing system enables a programmer to configure a group
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of (possibly heterogenous) computers connected by a network into a
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parallel virtual machine.
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Using PVM, applications can be developed which spawns parallel processes
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onto nodes in the virtual machine to perform specific tasks. These
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parallel tasks can also periodically exchange information using a set of
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message passing functions developed for the system.
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PVM applications have mostly been developed in the scientific and
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engineering fields. However applications for real-time and
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client/server systems can also be developed. PVM simply provides a
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convenient way for managing parallel tasks and communications without
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need for rexec or socket level programming.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parallel-Pvm/
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