Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: "Chris W. Humphres" <chumphre@ee.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: PVM on quad CPU boxes
Organization: Duke University
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 08:42:33 -0500
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Alexey Yurievich Starikovsky wrote:
> 
> Jacek Radajewski wrote:
> > I don't know much about PVM but have just been asked to build a Beowulf
> > system running Linux and PVM.  The idea is to have 16 CPUs (PENTIUM 120)
> > either on 16 seperate boards or on 4 quad CPU boards.  The boards will
> > be connected via 10 or 100MB ethernet.... my question is : How does PVM
> > work on multi CPU nodes ?
> IMHO the question is: will _Linux_ run on multi CPU nodes?

Yes, linux will run on an SMP.

Chris