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.html http://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.cgi http://www.rocksclusters.org/ - Art@JAX