Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:24:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MOSIX on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103280720560.126-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <02e001c0b730$590b4d40$931576d8@inethouston.net>
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >> 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. -- Brandon D. Valentine <bandix@looksharp.net> "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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