From: Mark Hampsey Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm Subject: Re: PVM on a multiprocessor machine Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 12:38:02 +1000 Organization: University of Newcastle, Australia Message-Id: <3740D28A.C11D3143@engmail.spamnewcastle.edu.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.parallel.pvm:8394 The standard answer is: "Start at least one process per processor". This is the easiest way to spread your load over your available processors - each processor works on its own task. I'm just new to this, so I'm sure you'll get some good answers from gurus, but this method works really well for me on my cluster of SMP machines. Cheers, Mark Dirk Janke wrote: > Hi, > > i have to write a diploma thesis about parallel data processing in > visualisation on multiprocessor workstations. Do you know if PVM is > suitable for using to this problem? PVM should give me the possibility to > parallelizis the processing of geometric data on one single computer but > with more than one processor!!! > > thanks a lot > > Kermit > email: D.anke@rz.fhtw-berlin.de