[SATLUG] Next month's presentation

[John Ziriax]

OpenMosix sounds interesting.  I've been meaning to explore some of the 
software that's out there. But there's lots of research to do and no little 
time for improvement. Sadly.  So, I for one am looikng forward to your 
presentation.

On Tuesday 27 August 2002 09:30 pm, you wrote:
> > I wish...  And doesn't it require applications specifically written to
> > support parallel processing???  I thought I read that you can't just
> > take any application and run it on a cluster???
>
> Well yes and no. If you wanna run true parallel apps, you'll need PVM, MPI
> or some time of scheduler. What my presentation will be different, is that
> it will cover openMosix.
>
> OpenMosix is a kernel level (repeat, KERNEL LEVEL) clustering solution. So
> ANY (with exceptions) apps will load balance across all nodes. Oh, and you
> know what? Mjpegtools is one of many apps that work *WONDERFUL* over
> openMosix! ;)
>
> The only apps that WON'T use openMosix are ones with shared memory,
> examples are Apache, MySQL, and Postgres. Anything left WILL load balance
> across the cluster.
>
> This is why I wanna get this information out because anybody can build
> one, and I wasn't joking when I said all you need to do is edit 2 files
> and recompile a kernel. Its THAT easy ;)

-- 
John
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