Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: am4a012@math.uni-hamburg.de (Thomas Schroeder)
Subject: Re: Question about pvm_advise()
Organization: University of Hamburg, Germany
Date: 8 Sep 1994 13:37:45 GMT
Message-ID: <34n439$8lv@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>

inf11@aho.cis.nctu.edu.tw wrote:
: hi,
: I wanna know detail implementation about pvm_advise(),
: does the function call choose the shortest path to 
: do transmission?What will happen if there is only one
: path between two hosts?

: ps.The experiment has showed that pvm_advise()
:    indeed improve the transmission time.But the
:    improvement decrease as the amount of transmission
:    increases.

:    Thanks for any response

Hi
the command pvm_advise() is only implemented in PVM 3.1.
In PVM 3.2 and PVM 3.3 this function is in the command pvm_setopt().

Bye Thomas

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