The Symera team is coordinating its NT efforts with the Condor team so that the two systems will be interoperable. These collections of libraries enable UNIX workstations to talk to one another as they coordinate the intricate steps in a parallel application. PVM systems still require researchers to manually transmit each portion of their application to whichever machine in a cluster it will be running on. That necessitates obtaining access to each machine and establishing communications protocols. Symera eliminates such manual intermediaries.
Researchers merely fill in a few functions and allow the system's drones to do the rest.
Eventually, however, other wizards may conjure code for all the major programming languages Visual Basic, Java, C, and Fortran. Researchers would not even need to fill in functions if Symera were strictly for running batch jobs, but it is not. Jobs don't enter a computing black box that spits out final computations. Symera will soon have programs for tracking jobs so that researchers can stop or change them as they would if the jobs were running on their desktop machines. That's interactive computing, what we call the Immediate Mode.