-----Original Message----- From: Mahesh De Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:46 AM Subject: RE: beowolfs
>But the problem is the apps need to be modified so >thay can be distributed accross the machines. There >are a compilers that help do this. Also there are some >apps that are "beowolf friendly". I think the ray >tracer povray is. Totally true. You need more than the compiler though. The code has to be written to run on multiple processors. >But there is also Mosix from http://www.mosix.org/, >i have not tried this my self but looks very good, >which appears to do the transfering of procesess by it >self. Mosix, by itself, does not parallel process. What it does is take your task/program and run it on the fastest available machine on the cluster. It doesn't run it on all the machines at the same time. To get great benefits from mosix, you have to have several programs (or the same program run multiple times) running at the same time. Then mosix with take the programs and run each one on it's own machine on the cluster. Hope that makes sense. Wayne
