Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@thud.cs.utk.edu (weicheng jiang   )
Subject: Re: PVM on SGI multiprocessor running IRIX 5.2
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 17 Nov 1994 18:31:10 GMT
Message-ID: <3ag7heINNegk@CS.UTK.EDU>

In article <CzF7yv.2tL@research.att.com>, albert@research.att.com (Albert Greenberg <3268-20520> 0112110) writes:
|> I am unable to get the master slave example that comes with PVM version 3.3
|> to work.  Has anyone successfully installed PVM 3.3 on an SGI multiprocessor.
|> I installed PVM 3.3 with PVM_ARCH set to SGIMP.
|> Our SGI has 16 150 MHz IP19 processors (CPU=MIPS R4400, FPU=MIPS R4010).  Some
|> details about the problem are included below.  Thanks.  -- Albert Greenberg,
|> albert@research.att.com
|> 
|> -----------PVM problems----------------------
|> 1) The first run of master1 produces 
|> 	libpvm [t40002]: pvmbeatask() shmget: can't alloc msg buf: File exists
|> and then after telling how slave programs I get a memory error.  This problem
|> dissapears after the first run.
|> 2) On subsequent runs, if the number of slave programs is small then the program
|> runs successfully to completion, most of the time.  Otherwise, I get some print out
|> and then the program just hangs.

You might want to try patch3.3.5 which should fix some of these problems.

-Weicheng Jiang
University of Tennessee

