On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:05:29AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:47:38AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > 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?
Not if you're looking for raw CPU power, which would seem to be the point of such an effort. > * CPU: what is the effective CPU speed of such a node on a > not-too-expensive computer? About 30 MIPS these days on a 2+-gig uniprocessor. > * Netork: The "speed" (both bandwidth and latency) between a linux > instance on the PC running Hercules and the linux instance on the > server I don't know of anyone that's measured it, but I suspect it won't set any speed records. > Is it worth the effort of porting mosix to linux/s390 and develping a > good scheduler? Not for prduction work, but Hercules would be a great environment to do the development in...
