On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:47:38AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>
> Instruction sets, integer formats, address formats, addressing modes all
> conspire against you.
> Mosix and openmosix are only usable on machines with the same
> architecture.
>
> Conceivably you could use either on S/390, but all members of the
> cluster would have to be S/390 (or zBoxes pretending to be S/390).
>
Is a Hercules node good enough?
* CPU: what is the effective CPU speed of such a node on a
not-too-expensive computer?
* Netork: The "speed" (both bandwidth and latency) between a linux
instance on the PC running Hercules and the linux instance on the
server
Is it worth the effort of porting mosix to linux/s390 and develping a
good scheduler?
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