Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@thud.cs.utk.edu (weicheng jiang   )
Subject: Re: PVM 3.3.3: Alpha to Paragon Strangeness
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 30 May 1995 19:14:22 GMT
Message-ID: <3qfqqeINNofr@CS.UTK.EDU>

In article <3qde68$lmm@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>, pdinda@CS.CMU.EDU (Peter A Dinda) writes:
|> 
|> I am trying to run a PVM program on both a DEC Alpha and an Intel
|> Paragon and am seeing some very odd behavior.  
|> 
|> First, I start the daemon on the paragon, grabbing just as many
|> nodes as I need.  Next, I start the console and add the Alpha.  
|> Now, from the Alpha, I start up the program, which then spawns
|> itself into the paragon.  I should note that the code spawns one exec
|> at a time.  After a while, I can see, via the console (but not, alas,
|> from XPVM), that all the processes on the paragon have started.  
|> At this point, all the paragon nodes send to the Alpha node to implement
|> a barrier.  The Alpha, however, never sees any messages.

You might want to try the latest version, pvm3.3.8. If the problem still
occurs, please let me know.

-Weicheng Jiang
University of Tennessee

