Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: co1dll@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (D Lamptey)
Subject: PVM/Network problem??
Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University
Date: 23 Nov 1994 13:54:50 GMT
Message-ID: <3avhja$m8j@hippo.shef.ac.uk>

Hi. I am using PVM 3.3 for a farly finely grained processing problem
on an ethernetted SUN4 LAN. The data the is transferred by PVM is often
used as an index into arrays, and I sometimes get "access 0th element"
type errors.

To put in context, this happens quite infrequently. Approximately, 
I reckon about 1 integer in every 80 million is goin AWOL. Is this
likely? I suspect ethernet's Bit error rate weighs in at a bit less
than this.. 

Can someone put this in some statistical error context for me?

Thanks, Derryck.

