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Parallel Virtual Machine

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(parallel, networking, tool)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.

http://epm.ornl.gov/pvm/.

Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.parallel.pvm.

2. The intermediate language used by the Gambit compiler for Scheme.
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