Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Chris Humphres <chumphre@ee.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: Q: adding a host more than once if it has more than 1 CPU
Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 23:32:04 -0400
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Wayne Hayes wrote:
> 
> I'm using PVM on a network of SPARCstations.  Some of them have more
> than one CPU (SUNMP is their type), and I'd like to allow as many
> PVM jobs as there are CPUs run on these machines.  However, I can't
> find a way to "add" the name of such machines more than once.  (I
> know I could use pvm_spawn with a specific machine name more than
> once, but I want a multiple-CPU machine to act transparently like
> a "bunch" of machines, as many as it has CPUs.)
> 
> Is this possible?  I can't imagine it's not, I just haven't found the
> trick yet.

Sorry, but as far as I am aware, this is impossible.  No
such mechanism is built into PVM.  Each machine, regardless
of the # of processors has only one pvmd (except maybe the
Cray T3E).

Chris

> --
> "Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes || Wayne Hayes, wayne@cs.utoronto.ca
> a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to || Astrophysics & Computer Science
> appreciate its simplicity." -Dennis Ritchie|| http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~wayne

