Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: chasman@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (David Chasman)
Subject: Re: Special PVM ports?
Organization: Center for Biomolecular Simulation
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 1994 16:38:24 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Jul1.163824.8776@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>

In article <2um5li$6fp@news.uni-paderborn.de> rww@uni-paderborn.de (Ralph Wendlandt) writes:
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>Hi, is there any special PVM port available which ...               
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>- uses special SUN SOLARIS features (e.g. threads, multiprozessing, ...)
>- is based on multicast-IP instead of UDP (for fast multicasting)   
>- is optimized for FDDI workstation clusters                        
                                                                     
	This is actually fairly simple.  You just use the fddi names  
instead of the ethernet names.  Then you need to adjust the PVM buffer
sizes before compiling PVM - I believe you want to play with UDPMAXLEN
in the file pvm3/src/global.h ( at least in PVM3 )
                                                                     
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>If you know something about these topics, please email me ('cause I'm not reading
>this newsgroup regularly).
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