Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: jr@ebi.ac.uk (J. R. Valverde (4423))
Reply-To: Jose.Valverde@embl-ebi.ac.uk
Subject: Re: PVM on ALPHA OSF/1 3.2
Organization: The EMBL Outstation - The European Bioinformatics Institute
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 21:12:46 GMT
Message-ID: <D9M89A.GI3@ebi.ac.uk>


In article <3q8c6r$fr5@mailer.fsu.edu>, Robert Todd <todd@hcs.eng.fsu.edu> writes:
>guarraci@hpel.umd.edu (Brian Guarraci) wrote:
>>has anyone gotten pvm to work on the above mentioned machines?  I've had 
>>problems getting even the daemons to start.  It seems that any version after
>>3.2.3 doesn't work.  My .rhosts file is correct.  I am currently trying to
>>get version 3.3.7 to go...
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Brian
.. SNIP ...

>
>It compiled fine for me also, I haven't tried using it as the master 
>node just yet but when using it in a heterogeneous atmostphere with
>SPARC 10's and SPARC 5's I have had no problems.  I am running 3.3.7
>on a axp150pc with OSF/1 3.2.  
>Robert
>

I have installed pvm 3.3.7 on various AXP and Ultrix machines, and it
works OK for me in that mixed environment. No major problems...

Just make sure you are using the appropriate qualified hostname in
the .rhosts file. If you have several aliases for the machines, it
could happen that some of them do not work as one would like. Test
them by hand prior to running pvm.

Before any one flames me... There's what I consider a bug on a few
network routines of DEC, that makes them return inappropriate host
names under specific conditions.

That goes a bit farther if you try to install DQS: in this case I had
to hack the code to make it run.

Anyway, pvm/xpvm posed no problem at all.

				Jose

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			    Jose R. Valverde
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