From: "Alain Coetmeur" Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi Subject: Re: Generic Question.... Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 10:03:13 +0100 Organization: Informatique-CDC Message-Id: <73lq44$91h1@puligny.idt.cdc.fr> References: <73lh3n$jal$1@ron.uri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cleo Barretto a écrit dans le message <73lh3n$jal$1@ron.uri.edu>... >I just installed WMPI 1.2 and have a LAN currently consisting of 2 >machines......I was wondering what the syntax of the procgroup (.pg) >file should be so that the communication procedures can proceed. as documented host #ofproc file-to-execute or local #ofchildproc local 3 server.domain 4 \\devserver\devshare\project\debug\executable.exe remote.station 1 d:\localdev\project\broadcasted-bin\executable.exe this will run 4 process (master+3) locally, 4 on server.domain 1 on remote.station >Any information about what is required to make sure that the machines can >reference each other would be very helpful.....thanks check that they know their names, preferably by DNS, maybe just by WINS/NETBIOS-TCP, maybe via etc\host or lmhosts (dangerous)