Updated by FastRunner on Tuesday, February 08th 2000.
Pvmsync is a "distributed programming environment" which provides synchronization mechanisms (mutexes, semaphores, and condition variables) and shared data (integer, floating point, and a raw block of memory) to processes distributed throughout a beowulf cluster. The idea is to facilitate communications between processes running on a beowulf cluster in the form of shared data. Access to these data objects can be mediated by using the synchronization mechanisms provided, much as with pthreads.