[olug] multi-cpu...the G'Neric way

[Charles Bird]

Yep, thats the one. Thanks for the info.
I'm sure I'll have more questions on this subject in a week or two.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick McNeil" <pmcneil at dragool.com>
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 07:44:40 -0500 (CDT)
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] multi-cpu...the G'Neric way

> I think what you are looking for is openmosix
> (http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/).  We have a test cluster setup here at
> work (4 nodes currently, looking at deploying it to our 400 node alternate
> worksite for some graduate work for one of the guys).  It can take any
> number of computers and setup a cluster of computers that all distribute
> jobs amongst themselves.
> 
> Depending on what you are looking for, there is even a knoppix version
> that has a built in network boot server so you won't need hard drives in
> each computer.
> 
> The nice thing about OpenMosix is that you don't need to recompile your
> code, as long as you are using the standar fork() commands your processes
> should move to the node that is least busy.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> Charles Bird said:
> > I cant remember where I saw a write up about this but there is an app for
> > Linux that enables two computers to sync up on one job using an ethernet
> > connection.
> >   Anyone heard of this? does this work with more than 2 machines?
> >   I have 3 AMD K6-2 systems and alot of RAM that dont have a real purpose
> > at the moment.
> >
> >
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