Newsgroups: comp.os.parix
From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Subject: Re: PVM 3.2.3 on PARIX
Keywords: PVM
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: 6 Jun 1995 15:17:15 +0200
Message-ID: <3r1kgr$76e@carol.fwi.uva.nl>

Jamal.Zemerly@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Jamal Zemerly) writes:

>Does anybody know how the multicast call in pvm 3.2.3 (pvm-mcast)
>is implemented on the PARIX 1.2. I contacted Parsytec about this
>last week but yet to receive an answer from them. Since this is
>urgent I appreciate if somebody here knows how the multicast is
>implemented.

The multicast as used in PVM/PARIX is a simple one-to-all operation,
which is considered to be finished (on the sender side) when the
message has been sent to all receivers. The send is asynchronous, so not all
receiver programs may have done a matching pvm_[n]recv at that time yet.

- Frank
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