On Sunday, 22.04.2007 at 20:21 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > One of the many topics that have my interest at the moment is that of > high performance computing by using cluster / parallel computing. Can > Ubuntu support this without a lot of hacking around?
I think this is tricky: the only really useable, open cluster project is OpenMosix which is currently only 'alpha'-level for 2.6.x kernels. The preferred environment for OpenMosix is 2.4.x kernels: something like Debian Sarge would be the best bet for that; the main problem being that if one is tied to a 2.4.x kernel, hardware support for new systems is tricky. Then again, a cluster works well with fairly basic (old) hardware. I'd be interested in seeing developments in this area, although it's unlikely to be Ubuntu-specific. The OpenMosix project essentially provides (if I've understood it correctly) a kernel patch and some userland/management tools. Dave. -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - freenode: davee All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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