Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Niall Adams <cmsnadam@kryten.cms.livjm.ac.uk>
Subject: Location of spawned tasks/group functions
Organization: Liverpool John Moores University
Date: 20 Feb 1995 15:56:13 GMT
Message-ID: <3iae2t$mem@gensva.athena.livjm.ac.uk>

Hello,	
        I have a program which consists of a master program that 
spawns p slaves. I notice that a slave task is often spawned on the
local host, where the master task is executing. It seems to me that
this must slow the execution time of the PVM program since the local
host is doing more work than is desirable. Is this correct? If so,
is there a way to force slaves to be spawned on machines other than
the local host?

	My slave tasks, (and indeed the master ) perform very similar
tasks. Is there any benefit in using 'process groups'? Are there 
any references to their use?

Thanks,

Niall Adams
n.adams@livjm.ac.uk 



