Nathan Moore wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running SL on a set of Athlon64 x2 boxes in a small-college,
> teaching environment. I ran across a link today to openMosix, which
> sounds at least like a beautiful idea that would turn most any
> heterogeneous cluster into a SMP-like machine. I'm writing to inquire
> if anyone using SL has also installed openMosix. I'm comfortable with
> building software, configuring MPICH etc, but configuring/compiling a
> new kernel (which openMosix seems to require) goes beyond my experience.
>
> (1) my machine is:
>
> [root@sebastopol temp]# uname -a
> Linux sebastopol 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 17:26:55 CDT
> 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Should openMosix work with this system (particularly the 2.6 kernel part)
>
> (2) once installed, would openMosix allow MPICH to run on top of the
> SMP system?
>
>
There is a great 3part OpenMosix tutorial by Daniel Robbins here...
Advantages of openMosix on IBM xSeries, Part 1-3
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/eserver/articles/openmosix.html
OpenMosix uses PVM not MPI... What is openMosix not useful for?
http://howto.x-tend.be/openMosixWiki/index.php/FAQ
Some notes about building a Linux cluster - What are PVM and MPI?
http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/ClusterNotes.htmlhttp://www.lam-mpi.org/mpi/mpi_top10.php
MPI vs OpenMP - Wind On Down the Road Page 3 - 200601 Linux Magazine
http://www.linux-mag.com/content/view/2428/0/1/2/
For MPICH messaging and true parallel processing, you may want to look
at some of the other Cluster solutions like Oscar, Warewulf or Rocks...
Oscar Supports SL - http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/http://www.warewulf-cluster.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgihttp://www.rocksclusters.org/
- Art@JAX
