Creating a cluster

Jonathan Underwood j.underwood at open.ac.uk
Mon May 30 15:09:54 UTC 2005


Mathias Gibbens wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   Is there a way to create a cluster so that you can spread one 
> process across many computers, thus creating something like one 
> super processor, and not many single processors? Thanks,
> 
> -Mathias
> 
> There's More Than One Way To Do It
> http://www.perl.org
> 
> http://www.hopechristianacademy.org 
>              
> 

www.openmosix.org - openMosix will migrate multiple tasks and allow load 
balancing across a cluster.

To spread ONE task across multiple nodes, you need to write it 
specifically to do this, using eg. PVM or MPI (I prefer the latter - see:
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/
http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html

Jonathan




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