Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: mghembru@dictator.uwaterloo.ca (Mattias G. Hembruch)
Subject: PVM capabilities
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 21:26:07 GMT
Message-ID: <D2o8vK.3GJ@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>

I am considering doing a project for a course in PVM. However, before I get
too deeply involved in this, I need to know if PVM can do the following:
(we have a local port to apollo machines which COMPILES, although it may not
be completely bug free)
-spawn tasks dynamically
-terminate tasks dynamically
-do the above under the control of a "master" program (ie send a sigkill to
program x from program y or have program y spawn program z)
-run more than 1 process per process/machine (I saw someone mention this as
a restriction on some machines)

Thanks a bunch.

Mattias
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Mattias Hembruch, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
BASc Computer Engineering
MASc Candidate in Parallel & Distributed Systems Group
mghembru@dictator.uwaterloo.ca

