Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.sys.sgi.bugs
From: benf@schizo.engr.sgi.com (Ben Fathi)
Subject: Re: PVM 3.3.9 on SGI Power Challenge
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: 5 Oct 1995 16:48:47 GMT
Message-ID: <45129f$3al@fido.asd.sgi.com>

In article <450kek$gij@oreig.uji.es>, badia@vents.uji.es (Francesc Alted Abad) writes:
|> Organization: Universitat Jaume I. Castell de la Plana. Spain
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|> 
|>   We are trying to run PVM 3.3.9 shared memory implementation (SGIMP64) under a 
|> Power Challenge from SGI, and we are having a lot of problems.
|> 
|>   The compilation process works well, but even the simplest examples hangs the 
|>   virtual machine. For example, spmd.c and master1.c/slave1.c hang with only 2 o 3
|>   processes attached.
|> 
|>   It is true that the version with sockets (SGI64) works very well. 
|> 
|>   Is anybody outthere having such problems?. Has anybody any workaround on this?
|> 
|>   Thank you in advance
|> 
|> 
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|>  | Jose M. Badia                         |   e-mail:badia@inf.uji.es        |  
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|>  | Universidad Jaume I                   |                                  |
|>  | Castellon  (SPAIN)                    |   Tel.(+34) 64 345771 ext (4720) |
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Do you have an fddi board in the machine? There is a known bug in the fddi driver
that causes the system to hang, specially with some PVM programs. We're in the
process of putting together a patch to fix the problem. Please contact customer
service for details.

	ben

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Ben Fathi (benf@engr.sgi.com)

