Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@apollo.hp.com (Weicheng Jiang)
Subject: Re: mixing MPs and SPs
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 16:05:55 GMT
Message-ID: <Dz9wpv.AIq@apollo.hp.com>

In article <tara-1210961937090001@news.rockefeller.edu>,
Tara Cox Matise <tara@linkage.rockefeller.edu> wrote:
>
>We have a Sun UltraSparc with 2 processors, and 2 single-processor SUNs. 
>Without editing my source code, is there a way to have my PVM job use all
>4 processors? I cannot find any hints on how to do this or even to know
>whether it is possible.  If someone can answer this, or tell me where to
>look for the answer, I'd really appreciate it. 

Start two PVM tasks on the dual-processor SMP, and one on each of the 
uni-processor workstations.

-- 
Weicheng Jiang, Ph.D.            Chelmsford System Software Lab.
PVM Specialist                   Network Computing Division
Tel: 508-436-4613                Hewlett-Packard Company

