So David, with Mosix, no code needs to be rewritten for the app to run? "David_Santo_Orcero_ (David Santo Orcero )" wrote:
> > 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). > > No, system calls get bounced back where the process were created. > There is no "main node". This is specially interesting, because you > can gain a huge performace increase simply do not creatting all process > on the same machine. You sacrify a little bit the "full > transparency" paradigm, but you overperform the same cluster > with Beowulf -on molecular modelling I did this comparation, and it > works- Anyway, on a Beowulf cluster you do not create all the process on > the same machine. ;-) > > Yours: > > David > > ----------------------------------------------------- > David Santo Orcero > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.biocristalografia.df.ibilce.unesp.br/irbis > ----------------------------------------------------- > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Rob Latham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: David Santo Orcero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: First Beowulf cluster. Some pointers? > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:54:05 -0200 (BRST) > cc: Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debian.org [216.234.231.6]) by > lector_gw.lector.kth.se with SMTP id MSGTTTQE; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:56:59 GMT > Received: (qmail 18928 invoked by uid 38); 6 Dec 2000 14:56:09 -0000 > Received: (qmail 18781 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2000 14:56:07 -0000 > Received: from adsl-nrp13-c8b0e7bc.sao.terra.com.br (HELO tayra.trantor) > (200.176.231.188) by murphy.debian.org with SMTP; 6 Dec 2000 14:56:07 -0000 > Received: from localhost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by tayra.trantor > (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eB6Hs5F01746; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:54:06 -0200 -- ----------------------------------------- Terrence E. Brown, Ph.D. Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship Assistant Professor Royal Technical Institute INDEK Drottning Kristina V�g 35D S- 100 44 Stockholm Sweden Tel: +46(0)8-7906174 (work) Fax: +46(0)8-7906741 (work) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
