re[2]: Interesting

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com>]

Thanks for the info,

So it is more like the SETI project, where they supply a screen-saver that runs calculations in the background and forwards the results to a main system somewhere.

Note quite what I thought it was, but I still find it interesting.

 >>  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
 >>  > 
 >>  > 
 >>  > 
 >>  > 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
 >>  > Internet Engineer
 >>  > Deployment and Integration Specialist
 >>  > Compaq ASE - Tru64
 >>  > Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
 >>  > The Norcross Group
 >>  > www.NorcrossGroup.com
 >>  > 
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Greg Freemyer
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Deployment and Integration Specialist
Compaq ASE - Tru64
Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect
The Norcross Group
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