A set of hosts in the PVM.

Inheritance:

HostSet

Public Methods

Task	Spawn (const std::string &Task) const starts the task with name Task on one of the hosts in the set and returns the corresponding instance of Task.
void	Spawn (const std::string &Task, int Num, TaskSet &Result) const starts Num instances of the task with name Task on the hosts in the set and returns the set of started tasks in Result.

Documentation

A set of hosts in the PVM.

This class represents a set of hosts in the PVM. As it is publically derived from the STL-set, all STL-features can be used. Here is a short example:

      // get all hosts except the one, I'm on.
      Pvm::HostSet AllHosts;
      Pvm::Pvm ().Hosts (AllHosts);
      AllHosts.erase (Pvm::Pvm ().I ().Host ());
      // start one task on all those hosts
      Pvm::TaskSet AllTasks;
      Pvm::HostSet::iterator Current; 
      for (Current = AllHosts.begin (); Current != AllHosts.end (); ++Current)
        { 
          // save all started tasks to AllTasks.
          AllTasks.insert (Current->Spawn (PROGNAME)); 
        }
      

void Spawn(const std::string &Task, int Num, TaskSet &Result) const

starts Num instances of the task with name Task on the hosts in the set and returns the set of started tasks in Result. The PVM rules regarding the default search path apply. The tasks are distributed evenly, taking into account the speed (as set by PVM) of the hosts.

Task Spawn(const std::string &Task) const

starts the task with name Task on one of the hosts in the set and returns the corresponding instance of Task. This function is not very useful actually, but only here because of consistency.

This class has no child classes.

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