Many Thanks,
Will forward links and see what obtains.

William.


--- On Fri, 3/11/11, Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: thread scheduling and migration
> To: "William Shu" <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, March 11, 2011, 10:49 AM
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, William Shu
> wrote:
> 
> > Dear all, wonder if anybody can help: (Tried googling
> on behalf of third party to no success)
> > 
> > Does anyone know of any software (free preferred) --
> or group of
> > software packages -- that can assist in: (a) spliting
> a process into,
> > say threads, with  (b) possibility of migrating
> the thread (or processes) to other machines that would
> continue running the
> > threads/processes. Machines could be virtual
> machines.
> > 
> > Ideally, (I think) one of the ideas is to have access
> to the threads
> > (+ executing environment) and somehow have
> [authorised] user
> > control on which machines to schedule them, and to get
> output.
> > 
> > Software could run on linux or windows (Software on
> windows was
> > actually asked, but linux (SL) can also be
> considered.
> 
> Have you looked at Condor and Open MPI:
>     http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
>     http://www.open-mpi.org/
> ? Both are open source and available for Linux and
> Windows;
> openmpi is included in SL5.
> 
> I'm not sure that either is what you are looking for,
> but I'm not sure that they are not.
> 
> -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison   
>     Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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> http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
>