Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: andy@henry.jpl.nasa.gov (Andy Boden)
Subject: Controling process/machine mapping
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology)
Date: 2 Sep 1994 00:14:43 GMT
Message-ID: <345qpj$9u1@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>

Okay PVM jocks,

   I've got what HAS to be a stupid question, but I haven't been able
to find the answer in the 5 min of looking I've done...

   I've got a heterogenious collection of machines -- which include
several multiprocessor Sun and SGI boxes.  My computation is set up as
a master-slave arrangement, and I'd like to have exactly one slave for
each processor in the machine -- meaning that I want to hang multiple
slaves off the multiprocessor boxes.  I have been using the default
process mapping that PVM provides, but even when I manipulate the
speed settings in my host file that doesn't seem to get me a
reasonable distribution of processes across the machine.

   So the question is, what is the minimum-effort way of controling
the mapping of PVM processes to machines?  Thanks for your time in
advance.

							- A.B.

-- 


"...it doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter
how smart you are -- if it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."

						- R.P. Feynman

