Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Merciless <liu8@llnl.gov>
Subject: not spawning
Organization: LLNL
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 21:59:48 +0000
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Hi,

    Thanks to the people who gave advice on whether I should use PVM or
MPI. I also
found a paper called "PVM and MPI: a Comparison of Features" which was
very helpful
also. Anyways, I decided to try PVM. I have it set up ok under Linux.
When I am in pvm
and type conf, I see all the right hosts. It looks weird though because
the listed speed for
the 300Mhz multiprocessor computer is the same as for a 200Mhz laptop.
Anyways, I tried
running the example program master1 and I get:

How many slave programs (1-32)?
2
Trouble spawning slaves. Aborting. Error codes are:
TID 0 -7
TID 1 -7

And when I try running hello it says:
i'm t40008
can't start hello_other

Looks like it isn't working. What should I check for?

Thanks,
Ming-Li Liu