Hi,
That sounds wonderful. We just need some more code; are you volunteering?
-Neal
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 03:17:36AM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote:
> I'm wondering wether someone is working on mechanisms that would help
> build a HURD cluster, that supports network memory and load balancing.
> The kind of functionality I have in mind is somewhat similar to Tanenbaum's
> Amoeba System.
>
> Mach has some unique features that were already used in research of load
> balancing and if they were enabled/enhanced in gnumach, some nice translators
> could be added to the Hurd, like a node scheduler for a task, which may
> always choose the less busy node, probably even migrating an already
> running task to another host etc... Another application of those features
> may be redundancy algorithms, that have the same tasks running on many nodes,
> checkpointing them, so that even if one(some) node crashed, the task would
> still continue running on other nodes.
>
> The Hurd seems naturally suited to research in distributed computing,
> since the main mechanisms can be implemented in user-space.
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