Bug#336256: ITP: slang-pvm -- PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) interface for S-Lang

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org>


* Package name    : slang-pvm
  Version         : 0.1.5
  Upstream Author : John Houck <houck at space.mit.edu>
* URL             : http://space.mit.edu/cxc/software/slang/modules/pvm/
* License         : MIT [*]
  Description     : PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) interface for S-Lang

 PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package which permits a
 heterogeneous collection computers connected by a network to be used
 as a single large parallel computer.
 .
 The S-Lang PVM module provides a S-Lang interface to PVM. By
 organizing distributed computations with S-Lang, one gains the
 advantages of programming in an interpreted language.
 .
 With this approach, one can make efficient use of all available
 computer resources: high level logic is handled in interpreted code,
 CPU intensive work is done in compiled code and PVM simplifies using
 all available CPUs.

A preliminary version of the package is available at the apt-getable
repository:

   http://people.debian.org/~rafael/slpvm

The package will be collectively maintained by the Debian JED Group
(http://pkg-jed.alioth.debian.org/).

[*] Details of the licensing terms:

  Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  This software was developed by the MIT Center for Space Research
  under contract SV1-61010 from the Smithsonian Institution.

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