Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Stefan Hinker <hinker@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Subject: Re: PVM Broadcast Communications?
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Date: 2 Nov 1995 10:29:48 GMT
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Hi Pter!

Peter Welch <pjw> wrote:
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>connection between a service and all clients.  When I add too many clients, the
>ethernet becomes clogged: I exceed the ethernet bandwith.  Could I solve this
>problem by using pvm?
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As of version 3.3.9, the pvm-broadcast comes down to many point-to-point 
connections.  The protocol used is tcp/ip and udp.  So, unfortunately,
pvm will not solve your problem.  There are, however, plans to cure this
in the future.

For more information and dtails, see:
HOME-Site at  http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/index.html
FAQ at        http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/faq_html/faq.html
PVM-Book at   http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/book/node1.html

Greetings,
Stefan
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