--- Pete Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could custom make one generic system and clone it eight times for > the initial install, but I have another question. > With your NFS root partition everything has to be generic 386, but > with a local install you could build nodes to take better advantage > of varying hardware. Not that it matters, what with their not exactly > being state of the art and all. And I still think OpenMosix would be > easier, what with not having to write parallel-aware programs. But to > be far most of my pro-MPI feelings stem from the fact that I will > probably never need to deal with a 2 gig file in any close personal > way, and process migration sounds just peachy.
Useing OpenMosix would be far more easy, but I'm looking for a software challnge :). I think that openmosix would be a way to go for the at home or at dorm route for workstations hooked up on a lan. If we go with a cluster distro the openmosix / beowulf tift is moot ===== /^\|==::::: Ted Kat. :::::==|/^\ ------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
