GNU <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20020414174048/http://www.gnu.org/directory/pips.html">
pips</a> has been decommissioned, since current efforts in <a
href="http://beowulf.org/overview/faq.html">Beowulf</a> and
other projects have advanced far beyond its state when it was abandoned.
The PVM features in the Linux kernel, on which all these efforts are
based, have also changed and improved considerably.