Re: mosix packaging.
Greetings! While I haven't used mosix myself, I've been interested in
trying it out for some time, and eventually seeing a package for
Debian. My understanding from my general reading was that MPI and
MOSIX could coexist -- in fact, the MOSIX people recommended using the
standard tools to "pre-distribute" mpi processes, perhaps due to this
missing socket migration functionality. Again, I haven't tried it
myself, but isn't the worst case simply having the mpi process begin
by locking itself into place via /proc?
Take care,
Viral <viral@debian.org> writes:
> >> However, at times we would see heavy arp activity, which would choke all
> >> the 100MBPS. I'm not sure if it was mosix or something else, but since then,
> >> we changed lots of things, and can't be sure what was the cause.
>
> > My network administrator noticed similar things coming from my small cluster.
> > After a bit of investigation, it seems that if a node goes down in a Mosix
> > cluster, all the other nodes arpflood with who-has requests. It became such a
> > pain that I only enable the cluster after working hours, so as not to flood
> > others' connections.
>
> Has anyone inquired about this on the mosix mailing list ? And if so,
> is there a way to fix it ? Cause, I would then like to run a mosix kernel
> all the time, instead of only after working hours.
>
> > While on the subject of mosix, same network admin mentioned that MPI/PVM may
> > run into trouble on the cluster. Any thoughts on that?
>
> MPI programs won't work, as mosix doesn't yet implement migratable sockets.
> I hear that the mosix guys are researching on this.
>
> PVM should work though, cause there are some MOSIX/PVM papers available from
> mosix.org. Of course, they couldn't have measured performance if it wasn't
> possible. ;-)
>
> viral
>
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