Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: lribeiro@mathlab.sunysb.edu (Leonardo Fonseca)
Subject: pvm on Paragon
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook, Dept. of Math
Date: 4 Aug 1995 15:39:16 GMT
Message-ID: <3vtev4$4lk@abel.cc.sunysb.edu>

I have been trying, without success, to submit to a Paragon an
application parallelized using PVM.

The application uses the master-slave approach with both master
and slave programs embbeded in the same code. When using a
cluster of workstations, where everything works fine, the
code starts in one node (the workstation from where I submitted 
the job) which spawns the slave processes. One of the slave 
processes is the original workstation, which also runs the 
almost-no-CPU-consuming master process. The application takes 
two arguments, the input and output file names.

In order to submit the application to the Paragon, I guess
I have to start pvm first (e.g. "pvmd -sz xx") and then submit
my job using something like "?? myjob inputfile outputfile ??".
I guess I also have to specify where to start the job with a 
"-on xx" switch.

Does anybody have any idea on how to do it, or any faq address
where I could find something?

Thanks,

Leonardo Fonseca
Dept. Applied Mathematics
SUNY Stony Brook

