Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: kcm@tca1.dl.ac.uk (Kevin Maguire)
Reply-To: K.Maguire@dl.ac.uk
Subject: Re: adding hosts to a virtual machine
Organization: Daresbury Lab, Warrington, U.K.
Date: 18 Jul 1996 14:34:11 GMT
Message-ID: <4sli13$fcg@mserv1.dl.ac.uk>

Hi

Jonathan King wrote:
# Combine this with your first question, and you would have a VM
# capable of dynamically taking advantage of hosts as they become
# available, detecting worker failures, etc.  If your program is
# designed in a SPMD (Single Program Multiple Data), in which the
# processes are peers, there are some serious problems encountered.
# Let me know if you want any further information.

# Both of the above solutions require adding significant
# sophistication to your program.  Nothing too bad, though.

Any examples of this around ??

Kevin
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