Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: sscott@nimitz.mcs.kent.edu (Stephen Scott)
Subject: pvm_config question
Organization: Kent State University
Date: 20 Sep 1995 20:52:45 GMT
Message-ID: <43puut$au1@ns.mcs.kent.edu>

Concerning the function:  int info = pvm_config(nhost, narch, hostp)

The PVM documentation states that the narch value is an "integer
returning the number of different data formats being used."  What
exactly is meant by <different data formats>?

This question came about as I have a program running on a virtual
machine which consists of (1)-SUN4 and (1)-HP7x and it returns for
narch the value 1.  And curiously, when running the same
application on only the (1)-SUN4 it still returns the value of 1 for
narch.

So what exactly is this "data format" and what does this number
returned as narch represent?  It obviously is not referring to a
different machine architecture.

Code is available to show this.  Email me if you want it.

thanks,

stephen.
sscott@mcs.kent.edu

