Hi Tim, thank you very much for the answer! I was googling a bit and found the link below. He is a openSSI man, but I think that his points are correct. He done a great summarization job!
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5860473&forum_id=21441 Cheers Marcelo ps: I want jobs running as fast as posible! On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 09:51 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:55:54 > -0200: > > Hi! > > > > I would like to know how compares openMosix and openSSI. Apparently both > > of them do the (more or less) same thing inside a cluster... > > I had a very brief play with openmosix, but not openSSI, but my > understanding is that openmosix will shunt your jobs onto different > CPUs in the cluster. If they have differing amounts of memory, it'll > also attempt to pick the machine with the appropriate amount of memory > -- if your job needs 1GB, and only one machine has 1GB virtual memory, > then it'll go there. Of course, there are race conditions in that, if > openmosix is too slow to shunt the job around. One job on one node > can't see any ram from any other machine. > > openssi, AFAIK, just combines all the ram from all the machines into > one memory image -- single system image. I don't think it can > schedule jobs onto one node or another and gives you N CPUs, but I can > be very much wrong on this. > > So, do you want much RAM or many CPUs? > > -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
