Distributed File Systems and Beowulf ?

[A.J. Rossini]

>>>>> "OK" == Omar Kilani <kilani at optushome.com.au> writes:

    OK> help what-so-ever would be appreciated.  There's always MOSIX
    OK> ... but we are leaning towards a Beowulf at the present.

MOSIX should be part of nearly ANY Beowulf (for balancing PVM or MPI
jobs, for instance).

It's not a "separate thing", but a component, as much as any queueing
system, distributed LAN APIs like PVM, MPI, SHMEM, etc...

best,
-tony

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