On Aug 16, 2007, at 4:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am wondering, what does , Globus as it is, do? Can we use for any practical work in its original form?
It has facilities for data management, execution management, and information services. So, for instance, you could setup providers on your hosts that reported into a central index service, then run Gridway at the top to metaschedule between the two machines. Your data will be staged when necessary, or you could setup replica catalogs to keep copies of your data at all the relevant sites. Or, as someone else pointed out, if you were using MPI you could schedule runs across multiple sites.
Globus isn't designed to take a single non-parallel application and make it run faster. It's designed to give you access to heterogenous resources from multiple providers and use them more effectively. With two single-cpu machines, you're not likely to get much speedup out of spreading access across the two of them.
Charles
