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From: "Dr A.C. Marshall" <adamm>
Subject: Re: PVM with no net?
Organization: The University of Liverpool
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:05:58 GMT
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jeff@Adeno.wistar.upenn.edu (Jeff Taylor) wrote:
>In article <4pdhca$q5g@netnews.upenn.edu>,
>	jeff@Adeno.wistar.upenn.edu (Jeff Taylor) writes:
>> I'd like to use PVM on a home system not connected to a network for coding and
>> debugging.  I built the pvmd but when it starts up it complains about not
>> finding the network.  How should it be configured?  
>> 
>> Jeff
>
>Well I figured out I had to use the loopback address about ten minutes after I
>posted, thanks to those who pointed out this simple solution.  
>
>I do have another question along these lines.  I'm runinng PVM on a SMP Linux 
>box with two CPUs and everything thing seems to work just fine.  What do the
>specially configured SMP PVM architechtures (like  offer over the
>regular configuration?  Do we need a LINUXMP ?
>
>Jeff

SGI64MP uses shared memory to perform communications whereas SGI64 uses 
Unix sockets.

Adam


