Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: ali@nefeli.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Ali Rahimi)
Subject: starting pvmd's separately
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Date: 27 Nov 1995 15:44:01 GMT
Message-ID: <49cmc1$o42@agate.berkeley.edu>

Hi Folks.
 I'm wondering if I'm the only person who's considering using PVM for
non-compute intensive tasks. I find PVM's interface simple and pleasant
enough that I would like to use it as the network layer in the usual
client/server type system.

 Less abstractly, I would like to use PVM the same way I might use RPC. The
problem arises from the fact that pvmd's are very difficult to launch
independently of each other. They must either all be spawned by the same
master pvmd, or the non-trivial register-with-a-key system must be
used to register newly launched pvmd's with the master pvmd. Ideally, I would
like to put a single line in, say /etc/rc.local, starting up a pvmd, and
specifying a master pvmd to connect to as a command line argument.

 I'm wondering if anyone else feels that this type of application of PVM
is widespread enough to warrant this kind of addition to pvm.

  Ali.

