Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: mjfrazer@dictator.uwaterloo.ca (Mark Frazer)
Subject: Re: PVM on Apollo
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 17:02:05 GMT
Message-ID: <D3n3BI.HE@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>

In article <1995Feb7.123532.13941@arl.mil>,
Alan Katz  <akatz@admii.arl.mil> wrote:
>In article <3h4g40$lp6@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> glam1292@servus08.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Swen Schaub) writes:
>>Hi,
>>
>>some time ago there was a discusion whether a port of
>>PVM for APOLLO-workstations exists. 
>>
>>I missed the end - can somebody please give me a pointer
>>to a point where to find the Apollo-port? (Or tell me that 
>>there exist none.)
>>
>>The functionality I need is very simple: Just sending some 
>>short (<10 elements) float numbers (no groups, broadcast, 
>>characters, ...).
>>
>>Thank you for your help
>>              Peter
>>              pe@mechb1.fertigungstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de
>
>Some time ago I got pvm working on Apollo systems. In order to get it to work 
>you must have NFS 4.1 installed (rpc include files are part of it). This in turn requires SR10.4. We had to mess around with the configs a bit but it seemed
>to work. I am not too clear on the details now because it was quite a while ago.
>
>Alan Katz
>-- 
>Alan H. Katz	"akatz@arl.mil"
>Army Research Laboratory, Materials Directorate
>AMSRL-MA-PC, Watertown, MA 02172, 617-923-5376
Last January I got pvm working on Apollo systems.  Running Domain/OS 10.2 and
10.3.  

It's not completely tested yet, but if you're interested, I can put it 
somewhere globally accessable.

Mark.


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Mark Frazer                          (mjfrazer@dictator.uwaterloo.ca)
Electrical and Computer Engineering            University of Waterloo
                          URL http://www.pads.uwaterloo.ca/~mjfrazer/

