Re: cluster list

["Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>]

Rik van Riel writes:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Greg Lindahl wrote:
>> [Albert Cahalan]

>>> What type of clusters do people care to discuss, if any?
>>
>> The clusters I build for HPC are totally at user-level, and don't
>> really require any kernel changes except good fast networking and
>> maybe page coloring. Clusers are a quite diverse topic.
>
> I don't intend this list to be limited to kernel level
> things, on the contrary...

Non-kernel solutions already exist. PVM works great, doesn't it?
Discussion would be pointless.

> The more things we can do cleanly in userland, the more
> the kernel will stay "small" and maintainable ;)

Mosix is interesting. NUMA is interesting. Maintaining a single
system image across multiple kernels is interesting. Running
real-time processes is interesting.



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