Parallcl distribu\cd computing systems provide niechanisiiis for exploiting parallelism inherent in many scientific and cnginecring applications. Onc such programming envimnnpr that has successfully demonstrated opcratioii on a cdlectioii of heterogeneous computing elements incorporated by one or more networks I s the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM). It has becn used on high end computing resources such as mainframe computers. multiprocessors. liper cubes. and the like. In Pakistan. the most common computing resource is a IOU. cost PC. The ahundancc .+)f such niachines provides an opportunity to devclop , and use a "pour man's supercomputer".In addition, research on 'PVM has focused on Unix or similar platforms. None of: the formal results, to evaluate certain benchmark applications. are available on Window based environments. The 'paper rcports the results of the local PVM implementation and compares them with results from conventional ibiplementations of PVM.

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