Re: Rationale: No New OS.

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sun Nov 22 1998 - 11:06:02 MST


Dan Clemmensen writes:

Actually both load-levelling and process migration is available for
Beowulf at least as a beta. The community is now in the process of
removing distribution specifity (EL was tied to RedHat Linux).

> At the other
> end of the scale, Some tasks have such a high intertask bandwidth
> that it is essentially infeasible to run them in separate menories.

This is the main reason why the Internet as a distributed computer is
infeasible for most tasks but few.

ciao,
'gene



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