Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:42:17 -0500 (EST) | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | Subject | Re: MOSIX and kernel mods. |
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On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Going hopefully more on-topic, I don't think MOSIX matters anyhow. I'm > not convinced of the merit of the idea in the first place. If you want > "nice" clustering support, you're probably better off with DIPC > anyway, keeping more of it in user space (but still not all). > > And I'm not even convinced about the DIPC model either. I think trying > to pretend a networked cluster of machines is really a single happy > machine with lots of nodes is fundamentally flawed. The right way > (IMNSHO) is to provide a flexible and lightweight API to support > communications (in user space), and write your application *knowing* > you're running on a networked cluster.
Are you talking about the sort of approach PVM uses?
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