Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@thud.cs.utk.edu (weicheng jiang   )
Subject: Re: How to let PVM use ATM switch?
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 20 Oct 1995 15:04:15 GMT
Message-ID: <468dpfINNasa@CS.UTK.EDU>

In article <467n23$69g@news.cs.nthu.edu.tw>, dr838306@cs.nthu.edu.tw (Shenjun Wu) writes:
|> Hi everyone,
|> 
|>       Our lab installs ATM switches recently, but I run
|>    PVM on it , the communication time is not change much.
|>    Does that mean  I have to write special communication
|>    routines to use the ATM switches ? Or there is a way in 
|>    PVM to tell it use that switch ?
|> 
|>    (P.S I have tried pvm_setopt(1, PvmRouteDirect), that 
|>         does not help .)

You need to bind PVM to the ATM switch when you start it with the -n option.
For example to start ATM on Sol and then add Barney to the configuration:

	sol>pvm -nsolatm
	pvm> add barneyatm

solatm and barneyatm are the names of the ATM switch addresses on these
machines.

Hope this helps,
  Weicheng Jiang
  PVM Group, University of Tennessee

