Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Path: ukc!uknet!pipex!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!piggy!kpwang
From: kpwang@ferkel.ucsb.edu (K P Wang)
Subject: Help for spawn on different ARCHs!!
Message-ID: <kpwang.761337683@piggy>
Summary: Help needed for spawn processes on different ARCHs at the same time!
Keywords: pvm3.2.6
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 18:41:23 GMT
Lines: 33

Forgive me if this is a FAQ. 

I tried to spawn processes across three networks.
The first network has 4 SUN4 ARCH.
The second newwork has 6 SGI ARCH.
The third network has PMAX and ALPHA.

My pvm code ran ok on each network.  Yet when I tried to spawn node
processes (I am using host-node model) I met a message from the
host program:

libpvm [t40004]: pvm_mcast(): Bad parameter

in the following cases:

host    node

SUN4    SGI
SUN4    PMAX
SUN4    ALPHA
PMAX    SUN4
PMAX    ALPHA
PMAX    SGI

When the host is on SGI the program runs ok.

Any fix?  

Thank you.


Kai-Ping Wang


