1.1   Major advantages of PVM

• Easy to install -- can be done by any user, can be shared between users
• Easy to configure -- using your own host file
• Your configuration can overlap with other PVM user's without conflict
• Easy to write programs -- standard message passing interface
• C and Fortran applications supported
• Multiple applications can run simultaneously on one PVM
• Package is small -- requires only a few Mb disk space
  
  
• Public domain -- available in source code
• Well known and accepted in the academic environment
• Not very widespread in the industry