PVM

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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)