[ale] Clustering newbie openMosix.

Berlin Brown bigbinc03 at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 8 18:03:46 EDT 2003


Two questions, do I have to do any special kernel compiles or filesystem setup(NFS) and is that difficult.  Also, is there a cool factor associated with openMosix. MPICH is pretty cool I am running even the most basic apps on a cluster.

Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
OpenMosix will help if if you have a number of severable distinct
processes to run at the same time. If you have independent database
queries that are computationally costly to make and you have to make a
rather large number of them in a given amount of real time, you can do
them on an OpenMosix cluster up to the point that the queries begin to
bog down the database server either in network I/O or within the
database server itself. 

- Jeff

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 17:10, Berlin Brown wrote:
> I have been tinkering around with MPICH for a couple months now and
> found it is not that difficult to get into. I have setup a couple of
> machines to test some custom apps that I am have been working
> with, Two dells 500mhz, the other a AMD 1.7ghz. Of course it helps to
> study the API. I was wondering has anyone had any experience with
> openMosix. I am more interested with working with my one custom apps,
> but I may want to use already existing database apps and I think
> openMosix may help. I know this question is general, fail not to
> reply.
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