Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: David Nicholas John Clarke <D.N.J.Clarke@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: PVM load balancing
Organization: The University of Reading
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 10:48:56 +0100
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>  Is it possible for the master to spawn some slaves and each of the spawned slave can spawn its own slaves?

This will depend on the type of architecture being used, either Real or
Virtual, if real it may not be possible but if virtual then it will
always be possible.  Hybrid topologies such as a master-slave of
master-slaves form part of my research

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Dave Clarke(BSc Hons)
Cluster Computing Lab(CCL)
University of Reading, Dept. of Computer Science
email: D.N.J.Clarke@rdg.ac.uk


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