On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, John Hearns wrote:
> > at least one of several available forms: threading, MPI, PVM, etc.). I
> > don't know anything about that video processing software, so I have no
> > idea whether those packages are parallel-capable or not.
>
> It sounds like an interesting application to me. I have a hankering
> after a small home cluster, and this might be a good thing to test out
> with.
>
> You don't necessarily have to have a parallel-capable application
> though. Maybe think about process migration using Mosix?
Mosix is generally only useful for applications where you have dynamic
scheduling needs. This is a common misconception. Mosix does *NOT*
provide parallelism -- it only migrates processes around as load and
processing requirements change.
If you have N dedicated CPUs for running N dedicated processes (or any
other kind of mapping where every CPU is always busy), there's no need for
a process migrator like Condor, Mosix, etc.
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{+} Jeff Squyres
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