Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: rbarrett@ranger.lanl.gov (Richard Barrett)
Subject: Re: cluster of RS6Ks
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: 11 Jul 1995 17:09:12 GMT
Message-ID: <3tub7o$jk4@newshost.lanl.gov>

We're running pvm3.3.7 on a cluster of 8 590s running aix 3. (We'll upgrade
to aix 4 in October.) Haven't seen the problem you report, but I can say 
that 3.3.7 is working here.

Richard
In article <3trqbe$udq@news.doit.wisc.edu>, Ahmad Abualsamid <ahmadz> writes:
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|> edward@aba.nsrc.nus.sg (Edward Walker) wrote:
|> >Hello,
|> >
|> >	Has anybody experienced any problems in executing a PVM 3.3.7
|> >program over a cluster of RS6Ks?
|> >
|> >	I have a large CFD code which runs okay over a cluster of SGI Indys.
|> >But when I recompile it for the RS6K and I try to execute it, I get : 
|> >
|> >> Illegal instruction (core dumped)
|> >
|> >	When I comment out large 'non-pvm' portions of my code and leave 
|> >just the skelton of the PVM program, I don't get this problem.  Is there 
|> >something wrong with the xlf compiler?
|> >
|> >	Any ideas?  I'm clueless.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.
|> >
|> >- edward
|> >------------------------------------------------------------------
|> >Dr Edward Walker
|> 
|> 
|> I had this problem with an SP2, which is virtually a collection of RS6000
|> workstations. With pvm3.3.7 it gave some bogus message concerning packing
|> longs, i reverted back to pvm3.3.5 and it is working fine so far.
|> 
|> Ahmad
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