Re: Batch systems in Debian

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

Hi Brett,

On 8 August 2006 at 11:46, Brett Viren wrote:
| There is also OpenMosix which will give you a single OS image spanning
| all nodes.  It is more useful in a general computing environment since
| it lets people work interactively.  Unfortunately it only supports
| Linux 2.4 x86.  I tried the beta with 2.6 support but it was a bit
| unstable.  When it is released I'll definitely consider it again.
| If you can live with 2.4 you might want to check it out.

I am aware of openMosix, my Quantian distribution has been shipping with it
for quite some time now.  But in what I need for a project now ought to be a
tad simpler (no new Kernel), may upset openMosix due its use of
multi-threading (which works in some variants and not others and I always
forget which) and may well require newer kernels on some of the hardware.

So back to non-packaged batch system, or simple ssh via shell scripts hacks.

Cheers, Dirk

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