Actuall over head on the openmosix cluster is less than 2% off bandwidth( check teh openmosix FAQ wikki). Migration though can really eat bandwidth so you do need at least 100mb cards you can channel bond teh servers to increase the pipe though.
Evan On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:58:37 -0600 "Baeseman, Cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Keep in mind that if you cluster ltsp servers together it takes alot of > bandwidth. I > brought my local network to a grinding halt with 26 nodes running a mosix > kernel on the > clients. The mosix stuff needs fat pipe for all of the chatter that occurs > ... > > We recently switched our servers to redhat advanced clusters using a sistina > gfs clustered > file system for a active / active configuration. This is a extremely high > end option and > is quite costly. You need shared scsi storage (SAN), GIG interconnect, > Sistina GFS also not > free and a month or so of setup and testing. > > If I had to do something on a budget I would look at mosix and put in a > private > crossover gig interconnect between two servers. I would under no > circumstances use > the mosix kernel on the clients. > > > > Cliff > -----Original Message----- > From: mullangi vamsidhar > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mike Eggleston > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 1/27/03 12:54 PM > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp as a cluster os > > Hi > Iam little bit confused here, mounting server root > means /root. Then I think we may some problems with > local apps. > Is this link can solve this cluster problem. > > http://www.k12os.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1 > 4 > > Thanks > Vamsi > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Actually openmosix would _definately_ provide help > > in that department. I believe you can just mount the > > srver root as the node root and have all the clients > > lok _exactly_ like the server with no fancy work > > needed. As to openmosix you really need to look in > > to it. JohnHopkins Universty used it together > > mpi/pvm for the human genome project > > > > Evan > > > > > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:31:31 -0600 > > Mike Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Tom Schouteden wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 14:02, Mike Eggleston > > wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have any recomendations on how to > > strip ltsp > > > > > to its minimum for running as the os on a > > cluster's nodes? The > > > > > applications and support data for the cluster > > processing > > > > > I will have on nfs mounts. I see a stripped > > down ltsp as having > > > > > nfsd, busybox, bash, no gcc, some way to load > > perl through > > > > > nfs, what else? > > > > > > > > have you considered using mosix ltsp or is that > > not an option? > > > > > > My application uses fine-grained parallelism in > > that the main > > > application runs on the head, scatters the work > > units to the > > > nodes, then gathers the results, somes some > > analysis, then > > > starts over. I don't think mosix would work for > > that. I plan on > > > having the head manage the nodes directly through > > mpi or pvm, > > > unless someone has a better suggestion. > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > > > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld > > = Something 2 See! > > > http://www.vasoftware.com > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. 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