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Processor virtualization and migration for PVM

Otto, 1994

Document ID
17484662914900261840
Author
Otto S
Publication year
Publication venue
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Environments and Tools for Parallel Scientific Computing

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This paper describes research underway to define and develop the next generation of PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine). Future versions of PVM will be modular and open so as to allow interoperability with other packages, such as distributed scheduling systems. We …
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