Piety is a desire and willingness to perform religious duties. It is a traditional virtue because religion is the only known way to win the favor or forgiveness of deities, that is, to "propitiate" them.
PIOUS is a complete Parallel I/O System for the PVM 3 distributed computing environment.
PIOUS is intended to serve both as a platform for supporting high-performance parallel applications, and as a vehicle for parallel file system research.
The PIOUS software is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License Version 2 (LGPL), as published by the Free Software Foundation, and is provided " as is " without any warranty.