----- Original Message ----- From: "David Boyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:17 PM Subject: Re: offloading CPU intensive loads from zLinux to cheaper pastures
> > Grid computing is interesting as a way to make the best of the cheap > computing power provided by intel boxes, on the one hand, and the robustness > of [snip of very interesting remarks about grid....] > OpenMosix works only with clusters of machines made up of single homogenous > architectures. For this to work on 390, all your nodes would have to be 390 > architecture -- the mainframe doesn't use IA32 processors of any type, so > you could only migrate processes between processors of similar type (ie IA32 Actually, the IBM zSeries do make use of IA32 processors...the HMC is PC based. And let's not overlook those two IBM ThinkPads embedded inside each zSeries box, acting as the support element (SE) processors. Dave Jones Sine Nomine Associates Houston
