Installing binary distribution of GRADE --------------------------------------- 1. Create the directory where you want to install GRADE, e.g. mkdir /usr/local/GRADE 2. Change to that directory, e.g. cd /usr/local/GRADE 3. Unzip and untar the GRADE (binary) package, e.g. gzip -cd ~/grade-5.32.18-Irix5.3.tar.gz | tar xvf - (supposing that you are to install GRADE v. 5.32.18 on SGI Irix 5.3 machine and the zipped tar file is located in your HOME directory.) 4. In the 'grade' script edit the value of 'GRADE_ROOT' variable which must be the actual installation directory with full pathname, e.g. vi ./grade 5. Copy the architecture dependent 'attacher' program to a directory where PVM can find it to start, e.g. cp ./bin/SGI5/attacher ~/pvm3/bin/SGI5/ 6. The PATH variable defined in the architecture dependent 'deb' (e.g. bin/SGI5/deb ) script must contain the directory where 'gdb' (GNU debugger) is located. 7. Modify our sample 'pvmhosts' file that is an ordinary PVM hostfile, in order to - include all hosts you plan to use in your virtual machine - specify where the PVM daemon is located ( 'dx' option) and the full access path of the architecture dependent debugger script in the 'bx' option, e.g. * dx=/usr/local/PVM3/lib/pvmd bx=/usr/local/GRADE/bin/SGI5/deb 8. On every host involved in your PVM make the installation directory of GRADE accessible (via NFS). Alternativly, you can install GRADE binaries on each host. The full pathname of the installation directory must be the same on all hosts. 9. Repeat steps 5-6 on every host involved in your virtual machine. 10. For each host involved in your PVM, create a text file in the 'bin' sub-directory of GRADE installation directory. The name of the file must be the name of the particular host followed by the '.arch' extension, e.g. if you have the host 'piglet' then you must have the file 'piglet.arch' in the 'bin' sub-directory. Each file must contain the actual value of the PVM_ARCH variable on the coresponding host, e.g. 'SGI5' in case of an SGI Irix 5.3 machine. 11. If you would like to use PROVE (the visualisation tool of GRADE), the Tape/PVM monitor software must be installed on each host of your virtual machine. Source code of Tape/PVM can be downloaded via anonymous ftp from the same directory where GRADE binaries are located ('tape.tar.gz'). After installing it, be sure that directory in which Tape prepocessor scripts are located (e.g. 'tapepp') is included in your PATH environment variable. 12. Download also the file 'BUGS' that contain a list of known bugs in GRADE. Please report any other problems with the software to or . I also recommend you to visit our WWW pages about GRADE where you can find example programs and the User's Manual of the system. The URL is: http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/projects/grade