Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Jon Reiter <jr@cfm.brown.edu>
Subject: Re: PVM 3.3.11 on SGI IRXI 6.2
Organization: Brown University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:17:02 -0400
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Ray Glover wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I built and run pvm3.4beta6 on an Origin2000 with no problems using
> pvm_arch SGI64.  This uses IRIX6.5 though.  The sysadmin on this machine
> says the latest version of pvm that they support is 3.3.9 which I
> believe they got from SGI so it might be patched to support 64 bit.
> --
> ************************************
> *            Ray Glover            *
> *     ray@glovers.demon.co.uk      *
> *  http://www.glovers.demon.co.uk  *
> ************************************

IRIX 6.5 works fine, the problem is specifically with SGI systems that
can't run 64-bit binaries (IRIX 6.3 for example).  O2K systems can run
those binaries so there is no issue.  

-- 

					-jon