[ale] beowulf clustering

[Chris Fowler]

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 08:06, da Black Baron wrote:
> You know you gotta have special code to run stuff on Beowulf?  Openmosix
> lets you run anything, and will migrate any thread generated by a
> program to a remote node for processing (with some exceptions).
> 

Aren't the exceptions related to shared mem and I/O?

If you'r sharing memory between 2 threads I would think that you could
not migrate.  If you have an FD to a local file, I also think you would
not migrate.

Problem is that most threaded applications shared memory.

> http://openmosix.sourceforge.net
> 
> It's pretty easy to install, too.  Just patch your kernel, compile, and
> there ya go...
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 21:04, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
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> > Have any of you guys set up a Beowulf cluster?  Is it difficult?  Can it 
> > be done with off-the-shelf components?
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