cluster vs. grid

["David L. Nicol" <dnicol@cstp.umkc.edu>]

"J . A . Magallon" wrote:
> 
> Well, what is a cluster ? Why would you need to plug a laptop on a cluster ?
> What is the problem with rebooting to change a node id ?

Maybe we should start calling it a "grid" instead of a cluster :)

Using the adaptive pool or half-duplex pool architechtures as 
described at www.mosix.org, with mosix 1.0.* installed on your
laptop, you could plug your laptop into a network jack anywhere
at a mosix-enabled site, get a DHCP address, get a local mosix.map
file from the cluster administrator, and demonstrate a massively
parallel application headquartersed in your laptop which would
use the lab machines as compute nodes.

That's today.

In the future, after our work in this WG is done, we'll be able to
let you do that 

	--> without inconveniencing anyone else if you run rabbits

	--> without needing to change your map file


Rebooting to reconfigure a service?  What do you think this is,
Microsoft?



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