Just the bare library, required by binaries with optional PVM support such as pvmpov. Install the pvm package if you wish to actually run a parallel job.
pvm | Parallel Virtual Machine - binaries | Mehr ...
Console and communication daemon binaries for the Parallel Virtual Machine. Should be sufficient to utilize a node in a dynamically linked PVM program such as pvmpov.
pvm-dev | Parallel Virtual Machine - development files | Mehr ...
Headers, man pages, documentation, auxiliary functions, and static libraries for the Parallel Virtual Machine distributed memory communications library.
pvm-examples | Parallel Virtual Machine - examples | Mehr ...
This package provides the examples distributed along with the Parallel Virtual Machine. This can be useful for initial cluster or interoptability testing.