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Re: cluster list

To: "Albert D . Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Subject: Re: cluster list
From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 01:31:19 +0100
Cc: linux-cluster@nl.linux.org
In-Reply-To: <200103010019.f210J05141359@saturn.cs.uml.edu>; from acahalan@cs.uml.edu on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 01:19:00 +0100
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On 03.01 Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> 
> Non-kernel solutions already exist. PVM works great, doesn't it?
> Discussion would be pointless.
>

I don't really consider PVM as 'clustering'. You have to do everything
of your own.

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

NUMA is my better choice. Just setup a common address space, launch a
thread that can go to another node, and let the thread access memory
without knowledge of its locality o distance away.

-- 
J.A. Magallon                                                      $> cd pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                                          $> more beer

Linux werewolf 2.4.2-ac6 #1 SMP Wed Feb 28 01:53:51 CET 2001 i686


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- Re: cluster list
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