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From: jegreen@gx1.nswc.navy.mil (John Green)
Subject: Re: Problems with PVM on SGI
Message-ID: <1994Apr19.224906.16581@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
Sender: jegreen@gx1 (John Green)
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center - Dahlgren Division
References:  <2ou46cINN28ll@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 22:49:06 GMT
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In article <2ou46cINN28ll@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>, a0117@athena.rrz.uni-koeln.de (U. Keller) writes:
|> 
|> I have problems running PVM 3.1.5 in a mixed environment of Silicon Graphics 
|> using  IRIX 4.x and IRIX 5.x as well as HP 730's. The problem seems to be,
|> that when I try to include the HP-workstations processes are not spawned on
|> the IRIX 5 machines though the daemon is running.
|> 
|> Can anyone help ?
|> 
|> thomas 

Thomas,

     If I understand your problem correctly, then the pvmd daemon
is running on the SGI's, but the slave processes are not being 
spawned to the SGI's.

     My suggestion would be to see if your home directory (ie. ~)
points to the same physical disc from the different machines.  If
it doesn't..(ie different home directories on different machines)
then you must do one of two things:

     1.  set up a ~/pvm/bin/"ARCHITECTURE" on each machine on
            which you have a different home directory.

     -OR-

  easier method:

     2.  use a host file to start up pvm using the ep option for
            each host. (pgs 7&8 of the reference manaual).

The problem could lie elsewhere, but this is the first thing I
would check.

Good Luck, This can be a little confusing for folks new to pvm
or heterogeneous environments.

John
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