.PVM.mstats {rpvm}R Documentation

Status of host machines

Description

Check the status of hosts computers in the virtual machine.

Usage

.PVM.mstats (hosts)

Arguments

hosts vector of host names (strings)

Details

.PVM.mstats returns the status the computers named by hosts with respect to running PVM processes. This routine can be used to determine if a particular host has failed and if the virtual machine needs to be reconfigured. .PVM.notify can also be used to notify the caller that a host has failed.

Value

Return machine status. "OK" if host is running, "Not in VM" if host is not in virtual machine, "Not reachable" is host is unreachable (and possibly failed).

Author(s)

Na (Michael) Li nali@umn.edu and A.J. Rossini rossini@u.washington.edu

References

PVM documentation

See Also

.PVM.notify

Examples

## Not run: .PVM.mstats ("abacus")

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