[buug] Clusters

Jeremy Brand, B.S. jeremy at nirvani.net
Wed Sep 4 10:46:07 PDT 2002


> Additionally, does Mosix provide, a single SMP style
> image? If so, do applications have to be written to
> take advantage of this kind of setup, or do generic
> applications (i.e. netscape, openoffice, etc.) take
> advantage of this distributed system and does Mosix
> fork the process over to other nodes??

The idea behind Mosix is that you can use your normal applications, which
is different from parallel computing and beowulf.

For normal applications to take advantage of mosix, they would need to be
able to take advantage of a normal SMP linux setup - meaning, mostly, that
they have child processes that can be thrown onto the other CPU, or in
Mosix's case on other machines.

Jeremy




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