Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: fletcher@dirac.pha.jhu.edu(Robert Fletcher)
Subject: Free Hosts on PVM
Keywords: PVM
Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Date: 26 Sep 1995 17:41:56 GMT
Message-ID: <449e14$8ji@news.jhu.edu>


I'm starting  to design a PVM  master-slave program.
 In order to do some simple load balancing I want the
master to know when  there is a free host. ( a host with
no tasks other than the pvmd).  This can be figured out from 
calls to pvm_config and pvm_tasks, but I though  there 
might be should be a standard way to do this. 
 
Are there any packages on top of pvm that do this and/or
other higher level operations? ( I looked for a FAQ but there's
nothing on rtfm...)

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Bob Fletcher
Johns Hopkins U.  Physics
Fletcher@bohr.pha.jhu.edu

