Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: fuchsf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Florian Fuchs)
Subject: Re: PVM on HPPA cluster?
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: 22 Feb 1995 15:25:23 GMT
Message-ID: <3ifl13$jgo@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>


>Hello, I'm installing PVM on the HP9000 machines in our sites, which
>include a cluster. The problem is that I can only add one of the
>machines from the cluster at a time to my virtual machine. Is there 
>any way to circunvent this problem and add all the machines (which
>are diskless) of the cluster to my virtual machine?

The problem might be the shared /tmp directories in the cluster. For this
reason just one lock-file for the pvmd can be created. But there is a
compiler switch you can set (at least in pvm 3.3) when translating the
pvmd sources, which makes the name for the lock-file look
like pvmd.<userid>.<hostname>. As far as I can remember, the name of the
switch was something like SHAREDTMP. I hope this information is useful for
you.

Florian

