EASYPVM offers a simple way to extend capabilities of the popular PVM. It facilitates testing and porting of the distributed memory programs in a workstation cluster environment written for the "real" MIMD/MPP-systems.
Table: A summary of the most important functions in EASYPVM
EASYPVM also removes most the PVM-programming burden, but also creates some new barriers related to mixed data type packing that is already available in PVM. However, the nature of EASYPVM is not to restrict PVM-programming in any way, thus all functions available in PVM, are still fully available for EASYPVM applications.