Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: crf@nmlf.eee.nott.ac.uk (Craig Flockhart)
Subject: Re: PVM and distributed loading
Organization: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham
Date: 5 Apr 1995 17:35:52 GMT
Message-ID: <3lukdo$bbn@griffin.ccc.nottingham.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?
> 

You might be able to do this if you use it in conjunction with a distributed
batch system that supports "checkpointing and migration". Condor and DQS
are two such (free) systems that will work with PVM.

Good Luck,
Craig.

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