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InitializeD: Initialize a Session

InitializeD[machinelist]

Each element from machinelist is a pair {machine, type}, where machine represents the domain name or the numeric Internet address of a machine, and type is the corresponding key in the file dist.system, which gives the system informations about the way the machine can be connected. The system tries to connect and start a Mathematica kernel on each machine from the list. If a connection fails, it continues with the others. If the list is empty, then only the local kernel will be used. If there already is an active session, this call will first close it, and then it will start a new one.

In[2]:=InitializeD[{{galaxy.risc.uni-linz.ac.at,solaris},
                    {"193.170.37.165",octane},
                    {zeus,linux}}]
       Connecting galaxy.risc.uni-linz.ac.at...
       Connecting 193.170.37.165...
       Connecting zeus...
Out[2]=okay

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Last Modification: July 5, 2000

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