Re: MOSIX and kernel mods.

Steven N. Hirsch (shirsch@adelphia.net)
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:42:17 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Going hopefully more on-topic, I don't think MOSIX matters anyhow. I'm
> not convinced of the merit of the idea in the first place. If you want
> "nice" clustering support, you're probably better off with DIPC
> anyway, keeping more of it in user space (but still not all).
>
> And I'm not even convinced about the DIPC model either. I think trying
> to pretend a networked cluster of machines is really a single happy
> machine with lots of nodes is fundamentally flawed. The right way
> (IMNSHO) is to provide a flexible and lightweight API to support
> communications (in user space), and write your application *knowing*
> you're running on a networked cluster.

Are you talking about the sort of approach PVM uses?

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