What are PVM and MPI?
PVM and MPI are software systems that allow you to write message-passing parallel programs that run on a cluster, in Fortran and C. PVM used to be the standard until MPI appeared. MPI (Message Passing Interface) is the standard for portable message-passing parallel programs standardized by the MPI Forum and available on all massively-parallel supercomputers. More information can be found in the MPI Forum.