Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: cfreese@super.org (Craig F. Reese)
Subject: xpvm1.0 and "hostfile"
Summary: braindead
Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 02:38:13 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jun17.023813.25005@super.org>

I don't know why the locations of pvm executables always gives
me such difficulty but I thought some recent "discoveries" might
save some others a bit of time.

  It appears to me (both by experiment and by reading the
  source code) that xpvm pretty much ignores any host options
  in the hostfile (".xpvm_hosts").

Clearly any lines starting with '*' are ignored, and it appears
that things like dx, ep, etc.. are just ignored and there doesn't seem
to be any other way to set them.  

*sigh*

In general xpvm looks pretty neat.  There are a few minor little pains
(color coding is inconsistent between views, .xpvm_hosts only looks in
home directory not in local directory first, etc...) but I think
they'll be easy to fix in the source.

Craig


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Craig F. Reese                           Email: cfreese@super.org
Institute for Defense Analyses/
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