Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm From: Erik Demaine Subject: Re: PVM without a network Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 01:53:01 GMT Message-ID: Daniele Vio wrote: : Is possible to run pvm on a mono-processor machine with TCP/IP protocol : installed, but without net-board and relative network? Yes, this should work fine. There is always (at least I presume on most operating systems) a network called the loopback, which means any messages go to the same machine. PVM can run over such a network. Erik -- Erik Demaine \( e-mail: eddemain@daisy.uwaterloo.ca (PGP avail.) Dept. of Computer Science \) URL: http://daisy.uwaterloo.ca/~eddemain/ University of Waterloo (\ "I don't know why; it seems to be harder to lie Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1 )\ to other people than yourself." -Neil Robertson