Many Thanks, Will forward links and see what obtains. William.
--- On Fri, 3/11/11, Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: thread scheduling and migration > To: "William Shu" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Friday, March 11, 2011, 10:49 AM > On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, William Shu > wrote: > > > Dear all, wonder if anybody can help: (Tried googling > on behalf of third party to no success) > > > > Does anyone know of any software (free preferred) -- > or group of > > software packages -- that can assist in: (a) spliting > a process into, > > say threads, with (b) possibility of migrating > the thread (or processes) to other machines that would > continue running the > > threads/processes. Machines could be virtual > machines. > > > > Ideally, (I think) one of the ideas is to have access > to the threads > > (+ executing environment) and somehow have > [authorised] user > > control on which machines to schedule them, and to get > output. > > > > Software could run on linux or windows (Software on > windows was > > actually asked, but linux (SL) can also be > considered. > > Have you looked at Condor and Open MPI: > http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ > http://www.open-mpi.org/ > ? Both are open source and available for Linux and > Windows; > openmpi is included in SL5. > > I'm not sure that either is what you are looking for, > but I'm not sure that they are not. > > -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison > Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge > [email protected] > http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna >
