At 10:30 AM 8/7/2003 -0500, you wrote: >It was a good meeting. John Cole, Karthik, Will Hill, Stephen and a newbie >named Julie showed up. Perks was somewhat empty and there weren't many >(any?) laptops on the WAP. Karthik said throughput was great.
Glad you had fun. I was going to go, but I got sleepy instead. :) >We discussed a few other issues. Stephen asked a question about how >openMosix did its clustering thing: is it truly clustered or just working in >parallel? I replied that I wasn't sure but I thought it just worked in With openMosix the smallest unit of processing is the process (not a thread). When you launch a process the local kernel will try to find the best machine to run it. So if you have ten compute servers, and one is less heavily loaded, then the process will migrate to the less loaded machine. Well, from what I read openMosix does take into account the speed of each machine, so if you have a fast computer that is moderately loaded and a slow machine that is lightly loaded, the faster machine might still be assigned the new process. The point here though is that a process will float around the cluster to the machine that can run it the fastest. So with openMosix your application has to be designed so that each process can work on a unique problem in parallel with other processes to get the best results. Alternatively, you may want to use openMosix in a batch system where you have several different types of jobs, and want a cluster of computers that know how to best get each job done quickly. There was a good article on openMosix in the most recent Sysadmin Magazine that I have. I suggest reading it if you are interested in openMosix. >parallel; the FAQ on the openmosix site should have a better answer. Karthik >asked if openoffice.org was in the Links section on the BRLUG website. I >checked and it is not. In fact, there is a misleading link there stating >that Star Office is a free download. It is not free. This leads me to think >that we need a new links page administrator. Any volunteers? It is not a lot >of work, but it does need regular updating. Please let Dustin Puryear know >if you are interested. Sounds good to me. --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology, LLC <http://www.puryear-it.com> Providing expertise in the management, integration, and security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications.
