Neil Schneider([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 09:45:58PM -0800: > > Wade Curry said: > > > > 3) I understand there are several cluster solutions. I know about > > MPI, PVM, and OpenMosix. Is one better than the others? (in > > general, or for an application/file server) > > MPI and PVM are not clusters. They are both essentially a set of > libraries that run on HPC (Beowulf) clusters. > > OpenMosix is completely different from HPC in that the program > migrates from one machine to another, seeking the least busy machine > to run on. It is tranparent to the user running the program. He/she > has no idea where the program is actually running, the results come > back to the workstation where it was initialized. There is no > master/slave relationship.
Oh.. I had a major misperception. > > Hope this helps. > Yes it helped quite a bit. Thanks! Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
