Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: ckumarad@heatwave.oci.utoronto.ca (Carl Kumaradas)
Subject: Re: What's the use of "sp=..." in hostfile?
Organization: Ontario Cancer Institute
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 15:13:57 GMT
Message-ID: <CKUMARAD.95Aug3111357@heatwave.oci.utoronto.ca>

>>>>> "Nick" == Nick Smith <nps@nmld.eee.nott.ac.uk> writes:

    Nick> Dear All, I have been fiddling with PVM for a bit, but
    Nick> cannot see any use for the machine speed specification
    Nick> sp=... in the hostfile. Using PvmDefault in pvm_spawn() does
    Nick> not allocate slaves acording to machine speeds.

    Nick> Is there an automatic way of doing this, and what is sp for?

    Nick> thanks, nick

I've asked this here with no satifactory answer.  What I have since
learned from the docs is that it is not used by any of the pvm
routines.  It is left as a parameter (read using pvm_config()) for the
user to use.  I use it to decide how to distribute the computation
burden across the computers.

Carl.
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J. Carl Kumaradas                           Ontario Cancer Institute
ckumarad@oci.utoronto.ca                    University of Toronto

