Re: [SLE] What is "pvm"?

Gerhard den Hollander writes:

pvm is indeed a paralel virtual machine. At a guess, transcode uses it to be able to make use of SMP machines and hen use both CPUs to do its work.

More precisely, PVM runs on SMP machines and on clusters too. Thus, for instance, all home computers can be involved in the computation. $ pin pvm ... ---> ./CD1/suse/i586/pvm-devel-3.4.4-605.i586.rpm ---> ./CD1/suse/i586/pvm-3.4.4-605.i586.rpm ... -- A.M.