Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: "Matthew H. Bassett" <bassett@ecn.purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: Hoping that this is not a FAQ
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:07:17 -0500
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Steven J Haeck wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

I thought that pvm_mcast and pvm_bcast sent a message to either all the members of
the virtual machine or all the members of a defined group of machines at one time.

These functions are listed in the pvm 3 user's guide dated September 1994.

--
Matt Bassett
Dept. of ChE, Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN  47906
bassett@ecn.purdue.edu
http://atsp.ecn.purdue.edu:8080/bassett/

