[KLUG Members] Mosix

[Bruce Smith]

IBM does Linux clustering.  http://www.mosix.org/

Awhile back when some KLUG members were setting up a web server cluster
with TurboLinux, some people said it would be fun to create a Beowulf
cluster.  The problem with that is, even if we did create a Beowulf
cluster, we wouldn't have any software to run on it!

I learned this from the mosix docs:

"While Beowulf clusters are extremely powerful, they aren't for
everyone.  The primary drawback to these types of clusters is they 
require specially-designed software (written to hook into PVM or MPI) 
in order to take advantage of the cluster. ..."

IBM takes a different approach to CPU type clusters which doesn't have
this limitation, and makes a group of computers look like a big SMP box.

Interesting reading for anyone interested in clustering.


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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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