Re: Batch systems in Debian
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, 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.
We have been using OpenMosix for 4 years or so on a cluster. The 2.6
kernel version is always coming "real soon now" but I am not sure there is
much activity on it. On the positive side, OpenMosix works pretty well at
load balancing across the cluster. The only thing is that it cross mounts
all the file systems over NFS and can cause some significant network
traffic.
Carlo
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