Tony
Thanks, this categorization has cleared up a few things I have found confusing. But should I read this to mean that SNOW would not run on a system or kernel level parallel setup?
Thanks, Paul Gilbert
A.J. Rossini wrote:
Also see SNOW (which simplifies parallel programming, sits on top of rpvm, Rmpi, or a socket-based system).
Depends on whether you want parallelism on the:
1. User-level -- the libraries such as PVM, LAM-MPI, etc will help, and there are various packages which provide an API to those.
2. System-level -- then Condor, Sun Grid Engine / Maui scheduler, and similar queueing/batching/allocation daemons will help (computational grid software is usually a generalization of this which adds authentication and resource allocation).
3. Kernel-level -- then OpenMOSIX, BPROC, etc will help.
They are mostly orthogonal. Mostly... :-).
best, -tony
Armin Roehrl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
If you do some programming, you might want to look at MPI. R-extensions for MPI exist (RMPI).
It all depends a lot on what kind of usage you envisage of your cluster. Open-PBS is also a good batch system. Maybe you also want to look at Mosix, which is a modified linux system.
Depending on what your ultimate computing ressources are, maybe also look at IBM's Globus toolkit.
Parallel programming is fun. The world is inherently parallel! Ciao, -Armin.
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