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- From: stolk@fwi.uva.nl (Bram)
- Subject: [Q][NET] porting pvm
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.142538.26881@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:25:38 GMT
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- Hi,
-
-
- I am trying to port the pvm package (parallel virtual machine)
- to Linux.
- I am experiencing several problems:
-
- 1) Linux header files do not define SIOCGIFCONF
- It took me quite a while to find out what the acronym stands for:
- Socket IO Control Get InterFace CONFiguration.
- It's an ioctl call that is supposed to return a list of all
- available network types.
- However, since the macro is not defined, I think that the current
- kernel does not feature it.
-
- I can probably work around this problem by manually creating such a list
- that contains just 1 entry: internet sockets.
-
-
- 2) The pvm code uses remote procedure calls.
- The header files I have, though, do not contain a rpc/ dir.
-
- Did one of you managed to port pvm?
- If so, please drop me a line telling me how.
- But I get the impression that the linux kernel aint capable yet
- of running pvm, but I hope I am wrong.
-
- For those who wonder: pvm enables parallel processing on a loosly
- coupled network of mixed architectures.
- It's kinda neat: you can have your 386, RS6000, I860, CRAY and
- ZX Spectrum all working on the same application (raytracing e.g.)
- as long as they are all networked together and all run UNIX.
-
- Take care,
-
- Bram
-
-