Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: kowallik@ifh.de (Rainer Kowallik)
Subject: PVM on SGIMP
Organization: DESY-IfH
Date: 17 Aug 1994 15:44:19 GMT
Message-ID: <32tb8j$lbf@dscomsa.desy.de>

Hello all,

I have tried to install PVM 3.3.3 on our SGI challenge (14 Processors) under
IRIX 5.2 using shared memory for communication.
It works fine for up to 6 Processors, but if I try to run a job on more
processors, the process stucks and the pvm console does not respond anymore.
A similar problem arises, when a previously successfull started job has finished
execution and I try to start the same job again without restarting the console.
I assume, this is not the normal behavior.

Has anybody managed to get the shared memory version of PVM work with more
than 6 processors ?
Possibly on an SGIMP running IRIX 5.2 ?
Is this a known PVM Bug ?
Or does our machine have some (hardware) bugs ?

Thanks in advanve.

Rainer Kowallik
kowallik@ifh.de

