Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm From: Martin Bernreuther Reply-To: Martin.Bernreuther@po.uni-stuttgart.de Subject: Problems with pvmWIN32 3.4Beta5 Organization: University of Stuttgart Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 21:13:46 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <34FB12FA.298D95C8@po.uni-stuttgart.de> After installing the pvm-package and starting the console I tried to add some slaves... First I tried to work with the RESKIT rshd daemon, but I didn't seem to work correctly. Then I got the test version of the ATAMAN rexec daemon. The error was something like work() run = STARTUP, timed out waiting for master but the pvm was running in the beginning... The pvm daemon produced a pvmd file in the temp directory of the client with the user rights of the local administrator instead of the domain administrator. So I had to change the user rights manually to delete this file again. Afterwards I tried to do the startup with so=ms manually. I got an error message RegQueryValueEx Error No 2 It would be quite useful to know which value was to be read. (The content of token) There's also a function called FormatMessage in the Windows API to translate Error No 2. Even with this really nice Installation tool it was easier to install pvm on a HP-UX cluster. The main problem for me is not pvm but the incompleteness of the operation system. (Windows NT 4.0) With Windows95 it might be even worse, but who is using Windows95 for parallel computing? Is there already an announcement about the pvm-version of rshd? Did anyone make some better experiences? (I hope so) Bye Martin I don't know if it's only here, but I receive more strange XXX-articles in the pvm newsgroup than related articles... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dipl.-Ing. Martin Bernreuther University of Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 7 Informationsverarbeitung im 70569 Stuttgart konstruktiven Ingenieurbau Germany Phone: (+49 711) 685-6595 E-Mail: Martin.Bernreuther@po.uni-stuttgart.de http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/iv-kib/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------