Incoming messages

The main PCT loop processes these messages:

• requests from yod
  • to load a new application
  • to interrupt the application process with SIGTERM or SIGKILL
  • to provide a stack trace of a faulted application process
  • to transition back to free because the parallel application is done

• requests from the bebopd
  • for a status report
  • to interrupt application process with SIGTERM (pingd -interrupt)
  • to kill application process with SIGKILL (pingd -reset)
  • for the PCT to exit

• messages from the user application that was started by the PCT requesting node ID map and other data necessary to set up the parallel application

• messages from a user's Totalview debugging session or cgdb debugging sesssion to be forwarded to the debugging session on the compute node