Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: TZENG <tzeng@physics.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: Task spawning
Organization: UCLA
Date: 31 Oct 1995 22:30:43 GMT
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Stefan Hinker <hinker@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:

>
>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
>-- 
>===============================================================================
>Stefan Hinker                         email: hinker@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
>                Unix? Still working on it  :-))
>===============================================================================
>

Hi, Stefan,

So you don't think pvm is able to know which node has already a
pvm job running or not.  That is too bad.  :(
I have to manually spawn these processes though I am doing so.
Maybe we should ask the Programming group to improve this annoying
problem for the next version.

-- 
Kuo-Cheng Tzeng
PhD candidate in Computational Plasma Physics
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~tzeng


