Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:00:48 -0500 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: eivind@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MOSIX on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010328170048.A5787@spirit.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103280720560.126-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>; from bandix@looksharp.net on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:24:24AM -0500 References: <02e001c0b730$590b4d40$931576d8@inethouston.net> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103280720560.126-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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| >> And what exactly does the "MOSIX" thing do? Maybe vmware, bochs
| >> or another PC emulator can help you?
| >www.mosix.org
| >
| >Sorry for the lack of terminology, but apparently is some sort of clustering
| >software for linux to setup clusters with a few linux machines.
|
| It's an alternative to MPI or PVM which performs parallel execution
| across a cluster of linux machines. It's advantage is that it can take
| applications like say, Apache, who aren't MPI capable, but are threaded,
| and distribute their threads over the cluster for parallel execution.
| No need to rewrite code for MPI threads. However, it's certainly not as
| efficient as MPI or PVM for real world applications. The Hebrew
| University of Jerusalem writes the software and before they wrote it for
| linux, they had a BSD/OS version. They are not allowed to release the
| source to the BSD/OS version, presumably because BSDi had some sort of
| source restriction on them at the time. If anything I would look into
| whether BSDi owns the source and get them to release it. It would be a
| much easier FreeBSD port from there.
For what it's worth, myself and the group of programmers I work with are
willing to give this MOSIX port a try, but someone *cough* eivind *cough*
hasn't gotten around to making a goals list for us to work towards yet. :-)
Cheers,
-Dan
--
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