Hi, On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:42:16PM -1000, Brent W. Baccala wrote:
> I've been wondering about using Hurd on a cluster computer; [...] > If so, then the first step would be to modify Mach, [...] Pretty much everything you describe has actually been considered in the original design of Mach, as it was meant to be the successor for certain projects (Amoeba I think?) that were entirely about this topic. However, as far as I can tell this has never been actually fully implemented in Mach; and we dropped the remnants of the disfunctional code for network IPC from our Mach variant several years ago. While I'm not an expert on this, from what I have seen and heard, the world has pretty much given up on this kind of transparent clustering, as for pretty much all workloads that require such massive scaling for performance / resource demands (large network servers, scientific computing, render farms etc.), it's more effective and easier to manage when partitioning the work explicitly using various kinds of specialised protocols. -antrik-
