Parallel Virtual Machine (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?] Last updated: 1995-01-30
