Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: wjiang@apollo.hp.com (Weicheng Jiang)
Subject: Re: Q: Testing PVM on SunOS 5.5
Keywords: Test suite, PVM 3.3.11, SunOS, Sparcstation, SUNMP
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 21:51:25 GMT
Message-ID: <E6C21q.DM@apollo.hp.com>

In article <5f5js4$94n@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>,
Jens Utech <jens@alinga.newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
>
>Hello everybody,
>
>i am quite a newie to PVM and I have got a question concerning
>testing PVM. I compiled PVM 3.3.11 on a 4 CPU Sparcstation with
>SunOs 5.5 (PVM-architecture: SUNMP). The compilation process finished
>without any errors and problems. 
>
>Now I wanted to test PVM to see if everything works. I tried to
>use the latest test software (Test Suite 2.0) from netlib.ornl.gov.
>
>During compile time (gcc 2.7.2) several of the following warnings came up:

You should use the SunPro compiler (/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc), gcc didn't work 
properly with the Solaris thread library, which PVM uses to synchronize in
a multiprocessor system. 

-- 
Weicheng Jiang, Ph.D.            Internet Technology Lab
PVM Specialist                   Internet Technology Group
Tel: 508-436-4613                Hewlett-Packard Company