Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: fischer@rudolph.cs.utk.edu (Markus Fischer)
Subject: Re: question about daemon
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Date: 13 Apr 1996 16:20:03 GMT
Message-ID: <4kok7jINNh5v@CS.UTK.EDU>

hi,

the pvmd process is used to establish connections.
to start new tasks, or to forward requests (to
the  group server + ...)

BUT you can use the call pvm_setopt(PvmRoute,PvmRouteDirect)
to establish TCP connections between to tasks without
passing the daemon.

hope that helps,
Markus
 

Rafiki Kim Hofmans (tw38966@vub.ac.be) wrote:

: I was told that PVM can't run without the PVM-daemon because the remote
: shell  uses the daemon.
: Is this true ?
: (i have to modify the PVM source code so that PVM runs without passing
: data through the PVM daemon)

: thanks in advance


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