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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!hubcap!fpst
- From: cpr4k@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Christian P. Roberts)
- Subject: Re: PVM & HeNCE
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.140901.419@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: Academic Computing Center - U.Va.
- References: <1992Nov15.011251.3464@colorado.edu> <1992Nov16.164435.19568@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov18.034113.14715@colorado.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:09:01 GMT
- Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu
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- In article <1992Nov18.034113.14715@colorado.edu>, christos@bohemia.cs.colorado.edu (Christos Triantafillou) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov16.164435.19568@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> cpr4k@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Christian P. Roberts) writes:
- |> >
- |> >Are you referring to the Intel hypercube here? Do you mean that
- |> >you are trying to run a hypercube program, where the Intel machine
- |> >is a node in PVM? Then are you asking whether or not you can have
- |> >communication between the nodes on the hypercube (which I would
- |> >presume you still would be able to do), or whether you can have
- |> >communication between a node of the hypercube and another PVM
- |> >node, for example, a Cray?
- |> >
- |>
- |> I am talking about using PVM routines to snd/rcv messages
- |> between the nodes on the hypercube, and it turns out, after all
- |> the respones I have received, that this is not possible, at least
- |> with versions 2.3-2.4.
- |>
- |> However, PVM is still useful for running parallel programs
- |> in a network of workstations and for exchanging data in a
- |> heterogeneous environment.
- |>
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- Check the posting by Tom Crockett from Icase for the way they handled
- this on the i860. I would think, on the simplest level, you could have
- PVM snd/rcv messages handled by the host program, but that the hypercube
- snd/rcv would necessarily be kept to the hypercube-node level.
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- Has anyone tried this?
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- Chris Roberts ITC/Academic Computing Center
- cpr4k@virginia.edu University of Virginia
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