On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Eran Tromer wrote: > So if you expect it to be "magic supercomputer" you'll end up > disappointed; as Gilad said, if you have well-characterized and > MOSIX-friendly workload, great. Otherwise, don't expect great success.
I also considered installing MOSIX for some time, and avoided and postponed it for several reasons, but recently I learned something which made me stop considering it altogether. In the advanced OS course in HaifaU Oleg Goldshmidt showed benchmark results, which show that migration does not enlarge the ability of the cluster to deal with loads in a significant manner. Back filling, on the other hand, does. So there is no point in working with a modified OS, where you are not free to update to a kernel of your choice, because you are using a huge patch. http://cs.haifa.ac.il/courses/AdvancedOS/ParallelScheduling.pdf slide 28. Orna. -- Orna Agmon http://ladypine.org/ http://haifux.org/~ladypine/ ICQ: 348759096 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
