Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: cwc@wam.umd.edu (Charles Winthrop Clark)
Subject: Re: Cleaning up daemons after PVM console failure
Organization: University of Maryland College Park
Date: 15 Apr 1995 14:18:06 GMT
Message-ID: <3mokiu$qsh@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>


Christos Triantafill (christos@alumni.cs.colorado.edu) wrote:
: When the PVM console machine fails the remote daemons are left behind
: causing further requests to spawn daemons to be refused from those machines.
: Is there an easy way to clean up all the mess left behind by PVM?
: Has anybody written a cleanup script?

A utility program that does this (pvmtidy) is packaged with the NIST Parallel
Applications Development Environment.  For details, see

            http://physics.nist.gov/ResOpp/hpcc/pade.html

or
            ftp://gams.nist.gov/pub/pade

