Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: S.J.Haeck@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Steven J Haeck)
Subject: Hoping that this is not a FAQ
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:56:07 GMT
Message-ID: <1996Mar13.115607.20024@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>

I hope someone can give me a definitive answer, I have read the PVM
documentation I have at my disposal, and would welcome confirmation that I
have correctly made the assumption that PVM does not support broadcast
communications between workstations in a cluster.  I understand that this
sort of operation is possible by making connections to a number of machines
in sequence, but that a single packet may not be processed by many
workstations under PVM -- ie. connected TCP/UDP sockets are used as opposed to
UDP broadcasts.

Secondly, while I realise that this is probably not the ideal forum, can
anyone comment on MPI for this form of one-many communication.

Thanks in advance,
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