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diff --git a/cluster/pvm/DETAILS b/cluster/pvm/DETAILS index 9a1a73641b..c8135fe61d 100755 --- a/cluster/pvm/DETAILS +++ b/cluster/pvm/DETAILS @@ -10,10 +10,14 @@ SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/${SPELL}3 KEYWORDS="cluster" SHORT="network-hooked computers used as a large parallel computer" cat << EOF -PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that permits a heterogeneous -collection of Unix and/or NT computers hooked together by a network to be used as -a single large parallel computer, a ``virtual machine''. Thus large computational -problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and -memory of many computers. Applications can be composed of any number of separate -processes, or components, written in a mixture of C, C++ and Fortran. +PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that permits a +heterogeneous +collection of Unix and/or NT computers hooked together by a network to be +used as +a single large parallel computer, a ``virtual machine''. Thus large +computational +problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and +memory of many computers. Applications can be composed of any number of +separate +processes, or components, written in a mixture of C, C++ and Fortran. EOF |