Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Stefan Hinker <hinker@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Subject: Re: Task spawning
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Date: 28 Oct 1995 07:17:25 GMT
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btmd01@btrtx3.uni-bayreuth.de (A. Wassermann) wrote:
>Now we observed the behaviour of pvmd that often more than one task 
>is spawned on one machine while other machines are idle. Is there
>an easy way to force pvm to spawn new task on idle machines whenever
>possible?

There is an easy way to force a spawn on one particular machine.  The trick is
to figure out, which machine is idle at the time :-(
PVM has no idea about speed or current load of its machines, so you would 
have to come up with something yourself there.  Perhaps your application
has some implicit hints about machine performance?

Greetings and good luck!
Stefan
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