Re: clustering code

2001-10-18 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Rayson Ho wrote: > If you are going to build clusters with over 1000 nodes, you should > then install a batch system instead of using kernel-based clustering > services. I thought we took this one private. Anyway, as I said in private, scalable kernel services for clustering

Re: clustering code

2001-10-18 Thread Rayson Ho
If you are going to build clusters with over 1000 nodes, you should then install a batch system instead of using kernel-based clustering services. Rayson --- Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well that's just wrong. 4 nodes? nope. I've got buddies at bio > startups > who start at 102

Re: clustering code

2001-10-17 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote: > And directly comparing the number of nodes with Beowulf-style > clusters is not fair. The Beowulf clusters can be reasonably > efficiently used only for a very limited class of problems > with very high parallelism of subtasks, high computational > comp

Re: clustering code

2001-10-17 Thread Sergey Babkin
Ronald G Minnich wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Rayson Ho wrote: > > > http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/ > > A collection of some really bad ideas, not likely to scale well. Note that > they've got up to 30 nodes, wow. Double it once and that's where this kind > of "global everything" idea st

Re: clustering code

2001-10-15 Thread Fabián Salamanca
ca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: clustering code >Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:21:58 -0600 (MDT) > >On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Rayson Ho wrote: > > > http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/ > >A collection of some really bad ideas, not likely to s

Re: clustering code

2001-10-14 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Rayson Ho wrote: > http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/ A collection of some really bad ideas, not likely to scale well. Note that they've got up to 30 nodes, wow. Double it once and that's where this kind of "global everything" idea starts to fall over. Badly. It would be ne

Re: clustering code

2001-10-14 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Fabián Salamanca wrote: > I'd like to try to develop code (maybe kernel code modifications or > external modules) for clustering with FreeBSD, but I'd like to see some > work in order to know where I might get started, I'm thinking 'bout plain > C and maybe C++ and some shell

Re: clustering code

2001-10-14 Thread Rayson Ho
The important question is what kind of applications do you run?? There are many clustering projects, espectially for Linux. One interesting project is the "Single System Image Clusters for Linux". http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/ And MOSIX is another interesting one. http://www.mosix.org/ R

clustering code

2001-10-14 Thread Fabián Salamanca
Hi!   I'd like to try to develop code (maybe kernel code modifications or external modules) for clustering with FreeBSD, but I'd like to see some work in order to know where I might get started, I'm thinking 'bout plain C and maybe C++ and some shell scripting,   Do you know any source code I may s