Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Alexander Schulz <schulz@ira.uka.de>
Subject: Re: PVM on Linux SMP systems?
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: 25 Jul 1998 14:20:44 GMT
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Edward J. Powell <epowell@visi.com> wrote:
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> I'm planning on using PVM with a cluster of Linux nodes.  I was planning
> on using dual Pentium-II cpus in each node, but I don't know if PVM is
> capable of taking advantage of a SMP system.  Can anyone clear this up?

I don't know that either, but we ran x-pvmpov (I know, thats kind of
trivial) on two machines, one PPro 200 and one P133 each with two
processors, two processes running on each machine and it worked very well.
So each slave used one cpu.

Hope it helpes a bit
   Alexander