Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Al Geist <geist@msr.epm.ornl.gov>
Subject: Re: PVM and distributed loading
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Date: 7 Apr 1995 12:39:58 GMT
Message-ID: <3m3bqu$la2@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>

cburnett@nvl.army.mil (Chris Burnette) wrote:
>
> 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?
> 
   What you are asking about is "task migration"
   There is a research project to put this in PVM 
   see PVM Web page http://www.epm.ornl.gov/pvm  under future research
   A prototype package may be available soon from the developers
   at ogi.

 Hope this information helps,
 Al Geist
> 


