Niko,
I'm just curious: what sort of simulation is involved?
Roy Wilson
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--On Thursday, February 24, 2000, 9:10 AM -0500 Niko Nicopoulos
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> I have set up a cluster of 16 dual processor boxes for Monte Carlo
> simulation at my company, each running SMP-Linux. I use PVM both within
> and across boxes to run parallel applications. I experimented a while ago
> with using threads within each box, and PVM or MPI for message passing
> across boxes, but I found out that neither of these pieces of
> software work well with threads.
> After I inquired, I was told by people who were involved in supporting
> these two packages, that they knew of no reason why these packages would
> be incompatible with threads, but they are. I was also told that there
> was some work underway to address this, but apparently nothing has been
> done.
>
> By the way, I am still using an Oooold kernel (2.0.36) compiled with SMP,
> because the last official (albeit development) SMP kernel
> I tried (2.1.15 or so) gave me trouble.
> My PVM applications would run only if compiled under the old kernel.
> Mind-boggling!! Has anybody looked into this?
>
> Nikos Nicopoulos
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