[ale] mosix clusters?

[Christopher Fowler]

My point is that some clusters like beowulf require an API to take
advantage of them.  You have to write your code to use the cluster. 
Otherwise you have wasted your money.  I do not know much about a Mosix
cluster.  So I'm not sure if it requires message passing or some other
form of communications to get heavy computations done. SETI is an
example that would benefit from a Mosix cluster.


On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 18:49, Stephen Turner wrote:
> i dont think it has an api, i believe i read that in the doc's, however
> some clusters have the extra node(s)  as mirror images of the rest, so
> they all contain the exact image hard disk, mosix says it doesnt have to
> have the same hardware or size disks, thus i ask, does each node get
> mirrord and all of them have the same hard disk image? or does all the
> hard disks become one very large disk? and if so what happens to the data
> when one node crashes? just gets lost?
> 
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