Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: btmd01@btrtx3.uni-bayreuth.de (A. Wassermann)
Subject: Task spawning
Organization: Universitaet Bayreuth
Date: 27 Oct 1995 13:55:40 GMT
Message-ID: <46qocs$qa1@btr0x6.hrz.uni-bayreuth.de>

We developed a parallel enumeration tree program based on PVM.
A typical behaviour of the program is that each task has a long
running time, sends its result to a master and exits. We restrict
the number of tasks. If one task has finished a new task is created.

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?

Thanks for any hints.
Alfred Wassermann

