[Gllug] openMosix

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 17:35, mimo wrote:
> I would be interested if anyone is running this 
> (http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/). I have googled a bit but couldnt 
> find any real world reports esp. in ISP environments (mail and web).
> 

For ISP type things, you might also be interested in high availability
clustering.
http://www.linux-ha.org/


Pity you missed my GLLUG talk on clustering earlier this year!
As I said in the talk, there are three types of clusters:


Parallel (running MPI or PVM parallel codes)

High Throughput (COWs  - clusters of workstations)

High Availability (handshaking and failover)


IMHO, the bulk of scientific and industrial computation is done
on High Throughput clusters, on embarasingly parallel applications.
This is where its important to keep the nodes busy as possible,
not only to have peak performance for parallel programs.
Applications to think of are graphics rendering (frame parallel),
high energy physics (event parallel), oil and gas etc.





I suppose the Mosix and Scyld Single System Image clusters don't map
well to these three (oops).


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