Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Anatol Piotrowski <piotrows@scs.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: Master and Slaves on the same Machine?
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:25:00 -0400
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Daveder Babbar wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> We are in the process of migrating our servers from SunOS cluster to
> Sun MP platform. Right now we just want to do a naive port i.e. with
> minimal changes to the existing configuration. That brings up an interesting
> question regarding PVM configuration: is it possible to run a master process
> and multiple slave processes on the same machine? What kind of adjustmets, if
> any, will be required? Is a single pvmd sufficient for this configuration?
> Any thoughts, suggestions, warnings are welcome.
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> davender/
> 
> --
> Daveder Babbar

	Yes it is possible. In fact I do it all the time for test 
purposes. If multiple slaves work on the same machine as master you have 
90% chance they will work fine on separate machines too. Single pvmd is 
enought

