From: ron white <ron@enigma.llnl.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: Re: Instance Computing
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:19:37 -0700
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Chuck Kimber wrote:

> Hi Everyone.  I have a question that I need advice from the experts on.
> I have a program that I will be running, and a pile of spare computers
> sitting around.  The program can run several instances of itself and I'm
> interested in networking my machines fast ethernet and trying to run the
> program on this network.  Now if I have the program on one machine with
> PVM installed, is PVM smart enough to know that I have another instances
> running and send all of it's processing to an available machine, or do I
> have to write code to make that happen?  Or is there some other solution
> out there you know of that I can look at?
>
> Thanks for the advice in advance.
>
> Chuck

You have to write the code to make it happen, explicit commands in the
source code, and info in the "console" about available machines on which
to run the daemons; see the PVM documentation.
Ron