Hi Thomas:

Thanks for the documentation for testing PVM manually, it'll help me
troubleshoot the problem under SGE.

Can you by chance put this in the Trac wiki, it will be immensely
useful.

Cheers,

Bernard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Thomas Naughton
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:53
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Erich Focht
> Subject: [Oscar-devel] updated pvm for testing
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I snagged a newer version of PVM today and did some testing on 
> x86_64 (CentOS 4.1 -- all I have access to here at ORNL) and on 
> x86 (FC5 -- IU server).
> 
> I'm not sure if this will solve the problems reported in the 
> current Trac
> bugs #5 & #27 (both PVM related) but dont' have access to FC5-x86_64.
> 
> I've checked in a new SRPM for pvm (no binary RPMs yet).  So, 
> if someone
> can test to see that:
> 
>     1) on FC5-x86_64 the new SRPM build properly (ignoring warnings)
>     2) that the resulting binaries install and run properly
>        (see note at bottom)
> 
> Then I believe the two PVM bugs are fixed and we just need to 
> rebuild for
> the appropriate platforms for the upcoming release.
> 
> Thanks,
> --tjn
> 
> 
> [testing PVM manually]
>   Here's a quick set of steps for testing PVM so you don't
>   have to install all of OSCAR.
> 
>       0) Install the PVM rpm
>          (If don't have switcher you can set the following 
> vars by hand
>           on all nodes via $HOME/.profile or appropriate shell file.)
>               # if on x86
>                PVM_ARCH=LINUX
>               # if on x86_64 or ia64
>                PVM_ARCH=LINUX64
>               PVM_ROOT=/opt/pvm3
>               PVM_RSH=ssh
>               PATH=$PATH:$PVM_ROOT/lib
>               PATH=$PATH:$PVM_ROOT/lib/$PVM_ARCH
>               PATH=$PATH:$PVM_ROOT/bin/$PVM_ARCH
> 
>       1) grab the 'master1.c' and 'slave1.c' files from the testing/
>          subdir of the PVM opkg.
> 
>       2) compile the test programs,
>            gcc -I$(PVM_ROOT)/include  master1.c \
>                         -L$(PVM_ROOT)/lib/$(PVM_ARCH) -lpvm3 
> -o master1
> 
>            gcc -I$(PVM_ROOT)/include  slave1.c \
>                         -L$(PVM_ROOT)/lib/$(PVM_ARCH) -lpvm3 -o slave1
> 
> 
>       3) create the default location for PVM binaries,
>            naughton: $ mkdir -p $HOME/pvm3/bin/$PVM_ARCH
> 
>       4) Copy the 'master1' and 'slave1' files to the above dir,
>             naughton: $ cp master1 slave1 $HOME/pvm3/bin/$PVM_ARCH
> 
>       5) Startup pvm and add a node or two
>             naughton: $ pvm
>             pvm> conf
>               ...list the current virtual machine configuration...
> 
>             pvm> add oscarnode1
>             pvm> conf
>               ...list the current virtual machine configuration...
> 
>        6) Exit from the pvm console using 'quit' (*not* 'halt').
>             pvm> quit
>             naughton: $
> 
>        7) Run the 'master1' binary and you should get 6 lines of
>           results containing the results of the calculation.
>           (3 from each node in the configuration, localhost + 
> oscarnode2)
> 
>        8) You can now return to the pvm console and halt PVM 
> to end the test.
>             naughton: $ pvm
>             pvm> halt
> 
> 
>   
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