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diff --git a/cluster/pvm/DETAILS b/cluster/pvm/DETAILS new file mode 100755 index 0000000000..cf080daef7 --- /dev/null +++ b/cluster/pvm/DETAILS @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ + SPELL=pvm + VERSION=3.4.5 + SOURCE=$SPELL$VERSION.tgz +SOURCE_DIRECTORY=$BUILD_DIRECTORY/${SPELL}3 + SOURCE_URL[0]=http://www.netlib.org/${SPELL}3/$SOURCE + MD5[0]=3d842f1e5592108427270be78c3f817a + WEB_SITE=http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm/ + ENTERED=20020122 + UPDATED=20020509 + LICENSE[0]=FREE + BUILD_API=2 + 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. +EOF |