parallel virtual machine

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parallel virtual machine - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Parallel Virtual Machine
  PVM
  
     <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)