David Santo Orcero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > A group of kernel parches that allow transparent load balancing by > migration of process. The migratrion is triggered by shortage of memory > of overload of CPU. It uses a distributed protocoll, and is fault > tolerant. I use Mosix on my cluster, on a production environment, nearly > one year ago, and it works fine. > > 'True clustering system' was what my friend refered it to be... ? > > Yes. With Mosix all cluster work as a single SMP machine.
Unfortunately, system calls get bounced back to the main node. This creates an IO bottleneck (all file reads/writes are done on the main node, no matter where the process got migrated to). But for the (admitedly sizeable) class of problems where all one does is chug on data for a while, then write results, mosix is indeed pretty cool. ==rob -- Rob Latham: linux A-Team Bethlehem, PA USA GPG Fingerprint: EAE8 DE90 85BB 526F 3181 1FCF 51C4 B6CB 08CC 0897
