Hello, * kunphuzil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-12-29 12:36]: > Does anyone know anything about OSCAR? (oscar.sf.net) > I am trying to decide if I should use Mosix or > OpenMosix or OSCAR. Very confused right now. Maybe > someone could guide me in the right direction?
Well, OSCAR is a collection of userland programs to do clustering. It has a GUI wizard to easily set up and maitain a cluster and one of its aim is to allow people with no knowledge of clustering to setup and use a cluster in a very short time. For the moment, tools are mainly for scientific computation and includes, for instance, PVM, MPI (MPICH and LAM/MPI), queuing system (openPBS), scheduler (MAUI), ... http://oscar.sourceforge.net OpenMosix (and mosix) are a completely different way of doing clustering. It involves important modification of the kernel so that processes can migrate transparently over any network. The load balancing is completely automatic and all nodes are equivalent. There is no queuing system. It is perfect for programs that do a lot of forking but not ideal (IMHO) for a multi-user / multi-purpose cluster as no one will manage priority. So you have to define your needs and the programming level of users before doing any choice. Ben -- Benoit des Ligneris Etudiant au Doctorat -- Ph. D. Student Web : http://benoit.des.ligneris.net/ OSCAR developper http://www.openclustergroup.org/OSCAR/ Mydynaweb Developpe(u)r: http://mydynaweb.net/ GPG/PGP Key http://benoit.des.ligneris.net/linux/gpg.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
