Re: Clusterwide pids

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl@conservativecomputer.com>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:55:16PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> I guess that I am such a cluster convert, that I simply accept that
> full SSI type clusters are the future.

Then you'd better listen more carefully to people who have different
needs, and users who have a different definition of a "single system".
I'm currently bidding on a procurement that will involve a machine
that is faster than 5 TFlops, and I assure you that any unnecessary
complications aren't going to be involved, because it's a really big
box that runs MPI jobs, not one that does anything else.

For some people, full SSI clusters are the future. For other people,
other kinds clusters are the future.

BTW, the pid size thing has been done to death in Linux-kernel. Go
read it, it's a good discussion.

g

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