Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: zrcc0100@nfhsg2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Manuela Sang)
Subject: Re: Dynamic Process Groups
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Date: 27 Oct 1994 11:29:28 GMT
Message-ID: <38o2uo$hoa@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>

Hi Manu,

In article <38lusr$q0m@paperboy.gsfc.nasa.gov>, manu@geo.gsfc.nasa.gov (Manu
Konchady) writes:
 
>         I am trying to implement  some of the  PVM group commands
>         like PVMFJOINGROUP and PVMFBARRIER on some Sun workstations.
>         Non-grou[p PVM commands work fine, however, I get a message - failed
>         to start group server: No such file ."  when the first group command
>          is encountered.  The group libraries were included during linking.
>          Is there any other parameter to be set to use PVM group commands ?

Is the PVM group server program (pvmgs) located in your PVM executable
directory ? Usually, if you use PVM3, this is the directory "~/pvm3/bin/ARCH"
where ARCH is the PVM name for your Architekture. All your spawned (not
manually started) executables must already be located in this directory.

When the first group command is encountered, the system tries to start the
group server "pvmgs". If the group server cannot be found in the pvm executable
area, you would get a message like the one you mentioned, I think.

I hope I could help you.

Bye. Manuela.

