Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: ahmadz@cae.wisc.edu (Ahmad Abualsamid)
Subject: Re: pvm_catchout() complaint and question
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: 2 Jul 1994 04:05:34 GMT
Message-ID: <2v2p2e$m6p@news.doit.wisc.edu>

In article <BRAD.94Jun27151349@wormwood.cs.washington.edu>, brad@wormwood.cs.washington.edu (Bradford Chamberlain) writes:
|> 
|> When reading the release notes for PVM 3.3.0, I was excited to hear
|> about the pvm_catchout() command, as it sounded like exactly what I've
|> been faking using various methods that haven't been completely
|> satisfying.
|> 
|> However, upon getting the new user's guide, and giving is a whirl, I
|> was dissapointed to find that lots of glarp was tacked on to what I
|> was trying to print (namely all the [txxxxx] notations and the BEGIN
|> and EOF markers).
|> 
|> I realize that these can be helpful at times, but they can also make
|> output completely unreadable.  Most of the real parallel machines that
|> I've worked on have supported printing by all children to a single
|> console, without any indication of who is printing, allowing me to
|> have several processors working together produce one coherent stream
|> of output.  Shouldn't there be an easy way to do this on a virtual
|> parallel machine?  (Or is there?  Am I missing something?)
|> 
|> Is there an easy way (short of src modification) to turn off this
|> 	feature of annotated output?
|> 
|> Are other users annoyed by this, or is output not so important to most?

   I certainly am, i would like to see the output of my processes w/o
   any other tags.
|> 
|> Has anyone developed an elegant method for child processes to print to
|> 	a single console that they'd be willing to share?
|> 
|> Thanks!
|> -Brad

Ahmad

