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...

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