Beowulf vs. MOSIX

[A.J. Rossini]

>>>>> "SP" == Szwedyk, Peter <Peter.Szwedyk@gs.com> writes:

    SP> It seems to me that for business applications, MOSIX might be
    SP> a better way to go as a quick and easy way to take advantage
    SP> of clusters.  With its load balancing and transparent process
    SP> migration, even existing serial applications should be able to
    SP> take advantage of the power of clusters.  With Beowulf, on the
    SP> other hand, one must parallelize the code in order to see any
    SP> improvement in performance.

I wish people would stop commenting on "beowulf" vs. "mosix".  

Mosix, since it is now "commodity", ought to be included as a possible
tool for any (intel-based, at this time), beowulf.

Unless you'd rather split beowulf into "beowulf-pvm" and
"beowulf-mpi"...

See the mosix docs to realize that the mosix people have considered
(and evaluated) pvm/mpi on mosix-enabled clusters...

best,
-tony


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