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[Beowulf] Virtual SMP

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Benjamin W. Mayer bmayer at cs.umn.edu
Tue Jul 6 06:29:45 PDT 2004


you might want to check out

http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/

That will do the virtual SMP for you but I am not sure about MPI.

http://bccd.cs.uni.edu/ does MPI for sure.

For the OS and Application seperation I would think that is a feature of
high end software/hardware combinations.

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, arun murthy wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am new to Linux clusters.
>
> I want to know if it is possible to build a "virtual" SMP out of a cluster of 1-CPU or 2-CPU nodes? Is there a way to run the OS related tasks on only one CPU so that all others are completely free for running a parallel MPI-based application software?
>
> Thanks for your time and help.
>
> Best Regards
> Arun Murthy
>



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