Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: rigolin@ronet.it (Dario Rigolin)
Subject: Re: Information about PVM
Organization: My Sweet Home Grignano
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 17:31:13 GMT
Message-ID: <56virt$kaq@dante.italia.com>

In article <328DE13F.41C67EA6@eurecom.fr>, Massimo Piana <piana@eurecom.fr> 
wrote:

>We are working in a project about the possible use of PVM in wireless
>networks: in particular we are trying to find if fault tolerance mechanism
>used in PVM system can be useful in a mobile environment, where the communica
>tion is less reliable.

PVM assume that the master machine is reliable, if a slave machine crash a 
message is notify to master but the crash of the master crash all the PVM. 
The master machine is a critical node of the system... 

>We ask you if you can help us in this recherche and we like to know what is
>your opinion about the use of PVM in a mobile environmen

Good idea for me... But the very high speed of broadcast is an aspect to 
analize.

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