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From: Pangrazio, Robert Thomas \(UMR-Student\) (rtp6xc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-09 12:13:09


Try Mosix. It will allow process to migrate in a cluster. This way the
cluster with the least amount of load will take load from other
clusters.

http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Ehrens [mailto:pehrens_at_[hidden]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:20 PM
To: General LAM/MPI mailing list
Subject: Re: LAM: I have a basic question...

Jeff Squyres wrote:
>
> The services that you mention (postfix, procmail, spamassassin,
myself,
> apache) can be cluster-ized, but not typically using MPI (at least,
I'm
> not aware of any of them using MPI to be cluster-aware; MPI is
probably
> not quite the right technology for them to be parallelized). You'll
> need to do some googling around to find other resources for
> cluster-izing those kinds of services.

This, for example:

http://www.gnu.org/software/queue/queue.html

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