Hi Dave I'm surprised about the kernal level - I'd have thought with all the tooing and froing about running virtual machines and so on just lately that the projects would be clamboring to get the virtualisation stuff into the main line 2.6.2x kernal.
Or, have I led myself up the garden path of total mis understanding out onto the back lane of total ignorance by getting virtualisation and cluster / parallel computing mixed up? Ian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Ewart Sent: 23 April 2007 18:57 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] High Performance Computing On Sunday, 22.04.2007 at 20:21 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > One of the many topics that have my interest at the moment is that of > high performance computing by using cluster / parallel computing. Can > Ubuntu support this without a lot of hacking around? I think this is tricky: the only really useable, open cluster project is OpenMosix which is currently only 'alpha'-level for 2.6.x kernels. The preferred environment for OpenMosix is 2.4.x kernels: something like Debian Sarge would be the best bet for that; the main problem being that if one is tied to a 2.4.x kernel, hardware support for new systems is tricky. Then again, a cluster works well with fairly basic (old) hardware. I'd be interested in seeing developments in this area, although it's unlikely to be Ubuntu-specific. The OpenMosix project essentially provides (if I've understood it correctly) a kernel patch and some userland/management tools. Dave. -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - freenode: davee All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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