Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: hinker@acl.lanl.gov (Paul J. Hinker)
Reply-To: Paul J. Hinker <hinker@acl.lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: HELP : How to spawn tasks on T3D ?
Organization: Advanced Computing Lab, LANL, NM
Date: 24 Oct 94 17:32:48
Message-ID: <HINKER.94Oct24173248@booboo.acl.lanl.gov>

In article gupta@acsu.buffalo.edu (Vijay Gupta) writes:

> I am using a master-slave model and need to spawn the slave tasks.
> The pvmfspawn() is notimplemented on the T3D MPP enviromnment.
> Can somebody tel me how I can start the slave processes on the T3D. 

   The spawning is taken care of by the mppexec kernel.  You have to
write the code by special casing out processors that aren't the master
[i.e. the slaves].  When the mppexec brings up the code it will be
running on all the processors in the partition you've requested
[either by the -npes command line parameter or DJM partitioning
software or whatever].

   If you have specific questions, let me know via e-mail and I'll do
what I can to help.

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Vijay Gupta					gupta@eng.buffalo.edu
> Dept. of Chemical Engineering
> State University of New York.
> Buffalo, NY 14260.
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