Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: albert@research.att.com (Albert Greenberg <3268-20520> 0112110)
Subject: PVM on SGI multiprocessor running IRIX 5.2
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 16:47:19 GMT
Message-ID: <CzF7yv.2tL@research.att.com>

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.

