Re: RE Re: available resource declaration language(s)

[Ric Wheeler <ric@emc.com>]

In MOSIX, you can do what we do with our 80 node cluster which is to
use the load gathering infrastructure to select the least loaded node 
and create it in place on that node (mexec() does this).  Other
clusters that I have worked on call this type of thing "remote spawn"
(instead of fork and migrate).

ric

David L. Nicol wrote:

>>> 2) It should be a efficient method to send a task from the beginning to
>>> the least loaded node  of the cluster. PVM have this, Mosix have not -in
>>> Mosix the task can migrate after being launched, but its kernel part will
>>> be executed on the launch node-.
>> 
>> A cluster batch scheduler presumably could be a help here...
> 
> 
> mosix is compatible with the farm-to-least-loaded-node mechanisms, not
> exclusive of them; their web pages used to proudly proclaim that mosix would
> supercharge a distribution mechanism for even greater throughput.
> 






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