The Setup Window
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The PADE Setup window and its subwindows (mainly the Setup Files
and the Tree View windows) are the portion of the PADE software that
provide the tools to manage a complex parallel application on a heterogeneous
virtual machine. Using the Setup window, the user can, at a glance or
with the click of a mouse button, determine what source files are required to
build the PVM executable on a given host and what commands are needed to
create the binary.
To provide PADE with the required information necessary for building
the application being developed, the user must specify the following basic
information.
- Host list - The user must provide PADE with the names of
the hosts which comprise the virtual machine on which the
application is being developed. Note carefully that the
names of the hosts provided MUST match those given to PVM when
the VM is started, including the presence or absence of the
host's domain name. The simplest way to do this is to start the
PVM console and issue the ``conf'' command at the console prompt.
The console will respond with a list of the names of the VM hosts
as they are known to PVM. These names must match the names listed
in the PADE Setup window host list. If they do not, when
pvmmake is invoked it will fail to spawn the targets
program and will exit.
- Host commands - The user must provide PADE with the commands
required, on each host, to create the executable binary on that
host. Multiple commands are allowed if they are separated by
semicolons. It is most convenient to use the make program on
all hosts on which it is available. An example of this is given in
the PADE Tutorial provided in Chapter 4.
- Setup Files - The user must provide PADE with the names and
locations of the source files to be transferred from the development
host to each host in the virtual machine. Note that the locations
of these files on the development host and on the remote host
must be specified.
This section contains detailed descriptions of all the buttons and windows
found in the PADE Setup window, Setup Files window, and
Tree View window. The descriptions below may seem inordinately many.
The user should keep in mind, however, that only the three essential pieces
of information described above are needed and that most of the buttons
are there to minimize the amount of typing the user must do.
Figure 5.7: The PADE setup window
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Fri Mar 31 20:30:34 EST 1995