Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
From: gdburns@osc.edu (Greg Burns)
Subject: Re: LAM on SGI
Organization: Ohio Supercomputer Center
Date: 23 Apr 1996 20:50:05 -0400
Message-ID: <4ljtrt$m4@tbag.osc.edu>

In article <Dq5xIu.CBE@liverpool.ac.uk> sscr03@liverpool.ac.uk (Mr. C.M.J. Ku) writes:
>
>Does anyone know how to create two nodes on a shared memory machine, SGI?
>

A LAM "node" is an instance of lamd, and one copy of lamd runs on
each UNIX system image.  On an SGI Power Challenge or Convex Exemplar,
this means one lamd, one node, regardless of the number of processors.
The ability to run multiple MPI processes is independent of the number
of LAM nodes.

-=-
Greg Burns				gdburns@osc.edu
Ohio Supercomputer Center		http://www.osc.edu/lam.html

