Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: dincer@npac.syr.edu (K.Dincer)
Subject: Can PVM slave daemons be started on the slave machines manually?
Keywords: PVM Slave, starting daemons, manual startup
Organization: Syracuse University CIS Dept.
Date: 24 Jan 1996 18:33:01 GMT
Message-ID: <4e5u0t$bbk@newstand.syr.edu>

 This question is about starting up pvm daemons on several hosts. 
 I do not want to give an "add host" command on the PVM console, but I 
 would like to start PVM daemons on the peers manually (by actually 
 logging into those hosts). I would like to  go to the peer machines 
 and tell them to start a pvmd (in the slave mode), and collaborate with
 the master pvmd that I have chosen.  Is it possible by definition/in practice? 

 I am planning to use PVM if it has this capability already. I may give it
 a try if it seems possible to customize the PVM source code with little 
 effort.

 I am quite flexible about the message passing software selection, so I will 
 appreciate if somebody knows such a software (such as MPI, p4 etc.) that
 can accomplish what I want. 

 Thanks in advance.

-K.Dincer 
 dincer@Npac.syr.edu



