[Ilugc] reg cluster computing
- From: joe_steeve@xxxxxxx (Joe Steeve)
- Date: Wed Apr 13 23:50:08 2005
"Prof. P. Sriram" <sriram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
happy to keep nine machines idle. one would have to necessarily
write a cluster aware program and forget openmosix. many
Not necessarily. Cluster-aware code can be written for open-mosix
also. The application simply needs to be designed to handle
parallel jobs on different processes which communicate with each
other via IPC. OpenMosix would migrate these processes to other
machines on the pool and hence we'll have N machines working on
different parts of the same problem in parallel. Making a
`problem` capable of being computed on a parallel environement is
a common problem for both OpenMosix/Beowulf.
However, I'm not sure how efficient the IPC is on openMosix. If
OpenMosix is going to bring the entire process core from a machine
on the pool to the original machine., just to send some data
across a pipe., then I think that is really sad. Maybe they should
provide some internally optimised IPC mechanisms which wont
require the process-info to be brought to the original machine
everytime a native IPC call is made. Or maybe they do.
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