In Darryl Röthering's email, 21-03-2001: > I am curious if anyone knows anything about clustering several single cpu > boxes together and attempting to run a multi-cpu build of Linux on top of > them. Has anyone figured out a way to thus put together a relatively cheap > emulated parallel architecture? > > I have searched for info on this, but am not finding any. > > Regards, > > Darryl Darryl: Someone else already suggested a beowulf cluster - you might consider a MOSIX cluster as well. It's in a less mature state than the beowulf model, but it works decently (I'm testing it now) by migrating CPU-intensive processes to other nodes and keeping I/O bound processes on the machine they are I/O bound to. Works rather well. http://www.mosix.org Michael Janssen - Jamuraa - janssen@cns.uni.edu - jamuraa@debian.org
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