>>>>> "Jill" == Jill Rowling <Rowling> writes:
Jill> Hi all, Anyone know what is the difference between Open Mosix Jill> clustering vs the Grid Engine project Jill> http://gridengine.sunsource.net/ as far as the end user's Jill> application software is concerned? It's my understanding (which could be quite wrong) that a computing grid is a much larger thing than a cluster ---- multiple clusters can participate in a grid; and a grid can be heterogenous. When you're writing code for a cluster, you use OpenMPI or something. I don't think that MPI will work over a grid --- a grid is more a way to distribute jobs to clusters or machines within the grid (like NQS but bigger). See http://www.gridcomputing.com for more details. However, this leads to another question: Does the Grid Engine implement a cluster or a grid? SETI@home is an example of a grid computation. Peter C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
