RE: Interesting

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

AFAIK, Sun's Grid Engine project (as well as IBM's grid initiative) is not
really clustering per say, but more of a distributed computing model.

Think of the Mosix concept "loosely" but on a potentially EXTREMELY large
scale.  The main push of "The Grid" is to allow "seamless" access to CPU
cycles, regardless of location.  This seems more like a distributed model,
vs. clustered, as the the latencies across the internet preclude HP
clustering.  Grid software is gear toward locating hosts with free cycles to
launch processes on, rather than say running an MPI app on 64,000 machines
across the net.

StanTheMan
TheHardwareFreak
http://www.hardwarefreak.com
stan@hardwarefreak.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:36 PM
> To: Linux Clusters Mailinig List
> Cc: Linux HA - users mailing lins
> Subject: Interesting
> 
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> 
> I just saw that Suse 8.0 Professional includes Sun's Grid Engine.
> 
> http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2002-04/sunflash.20020422.1.html
> 
> I don't know anything about it, but it is nice to see some 
> cluster solutions going into a mainstream distribution.
> 
> There are probably others, but none that I know of.
> 
> BTW: I assume it is a HP clustering solution, not an HA one.
> 
> Greg Freemyer
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> Compaq ASE - Tru64
> Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
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