Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@thud.cs.utk.edu (weicheng jiang   )
Subject: Re: multiprocessor workstations
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 12 Jul 1995 00:17:39 GMT
Message-ID: <3tv4b3INNp0@CS.UTK.EDU>

In article <3tu2j0$6r5@hardy.ee.gatech.edu>, dibella@eedsp.gatech.edu (Edward Di Bella) writes:
|>    I would like to know how (if it does at all) PVM assigns tasks
|> to processors in multiprocessor workstations such as 
|> SUNMP, say a SPARCstation 20 with two processors.  For example,

PVM leaves that decision to the operating system. It simply forks the
processes.
 
|> if I spawn two tasks on such a machine, is it possible they will 
|> both be placed on the same processor?  Is there a way I could 
|> specify?
|

Yes. Check out the nntime.c program in pvm3/examples/ .

-Weicheng Jiang
PVM Group


