Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Hans Juergen Wahl <hjwahl@fb5.uni-siegen.de>
Subject: Slaves working in different subdirectories on one host
Organization: University of Siegen, FOMAAS
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 1996 10:08:34 +0100
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Hi,

I'm a new user in the pvm-world and I work on a SUN-Workstation under 
SunOS 4.1.3. I have the following problem. I want to realize a parallel 
numerical sensitivity analysis in form of a master-slave-concept. 
For this I need the slaves working in subdirectories different from the 
current working directory specified in the host.cfg file. The reason 
for this demand is that the number of the independent variables in 
general differs from the number of hosts. Therefore it is possible 
that PVM spawns more than one task to one host at the same time. For 
the calculation of the function I use a commercial finite element 
program which needs different files for in-/output with a user-defined 
filename. The program (written in FORTRAN) which executes the gradient 
calculation copies these files in the subdirectories.
Is there a chance to realize this concept?

Thank you

 Regards,


    Juergen

