Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
Subject: Re: PVM and distributed loading
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: 5 Apr 1995 15:45:23 GMT
Message-ID: <3luduj$i5d@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>

In article <D6IJu0.Ay2@nvl.army.mil>, cburnett@nvl.army.mil (Chris Burnette) writes:
|> I'm attempting to implement a distributed loading algorithm using
|> PVM.  Looked at the WWW sites and looked through the manual.
|> 
|> Does anyone know of a way in PVM to take an executing process
|> on one machine and transfer it to another?
|> 
|> It looks like you can spawn processes and assign them to specific machines
|> before they start, but I didn't see anything that would allow you
|> to move a process from one machine to another after its started running.
|> 
|> If you know of a way to do this, or know of somewhere I can get some help,
|> please e-mail me.

It cannot be done without appropriate operating system support, and
few systems provide such support.  In particular, 99% of Unices don't.
You are out of luck, I am afraid.


Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG, England.
Email:  nmm1@cam.ac.uk
Tel.:  +44 1223 334761    Fax:  +44 1223 334679

