From: "Omar G. Stradella" Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm Subject: Re: pvm on multiprocessor smp linux and sgi machines Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:22:23 -0400 Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Message-Id: <3794CC6F.FF76A79E@boston.sgi.com> References: <3794EA7F.D0B26813@designlab.ukans.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.parallel.pvm:8584 Matthew Copeland wrote: > > I have recently been playing around with pvm3.4.1 on two Dual PII-333, > and an SGI Origin 2000 (6 processors). I have managed to get the > Pentium-IIs talking to each other, but I when I fire off a job, it only > uses one of the processors on each machine, rather than both of the > processors on each machine. > A similar problem occurs when I am attempting to fire off a job for the > origin. It will use one processor, but not more than that. What do I > need to do to get pvm to recognize the fact that their are multiple > processors in the machine and to make use of them. Did you define PVM_ARCH as SGIMP6 or SGIMP64 ?. Did you "setenv PVM_SHMEM ON" ?. Omar. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ Omar G. Stradella, Ph.D. SGI / Chemistry and Biology Applications Group One Cabot Road, Hudson, MA 01749, USA N 42 22'40" W 71 33'44" E-mail: omar@boston.sgi.com Phone: +1-978-567-2258 FAX: +1-978-562-4755 http://www.sgi.com/chembio http://reality.sgi.com/omar +-------- Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn -------+