On Tuesday, 24.04.2007 at 17:26 +0100, Thomas Steffen 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? > > That depends a bit on your software. The most popular free tool in > high performance computing is PVM, which uses an explicite > communication model. If your software supports PVM, it should run on > Ubuntu "out of the box". There are alternative solutions (such as > MOSIX), but they do not all provide the same raw power as PVM.
Comparing PVM and MOSIX is an "apples and oranges" comparison, to some extent. As I understand it: MOSIX and OpenMOSIX are generally designed to run applications unmodified. PVM, on the other hand, needs applications specifically written under the PVM framework, i.e. there are 'pvm_*' function calls in your code. PVM may well be more powerful, but it's scope is more limited. 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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