On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:46:56PM +0100, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> there's also mosix which apparently makes a bunch of linux computers
> act like one in terms of transparent process migration for load
> balancing. Could be fun "right... who's gone and started StarOffice!".
Ah, memories of using the old Linux network in DCU - the NFS/NIS server
was a machine in the lab, just like any other. Only it didn't have a
keyboard. Didn't stop people coming up to it, and power cycling it like
they would any other DOS box...isn't that right Noel ?
As soon as that happened, you would see about ten people stand up,
prarie-dog like, automatically translating "NFS: timeout" messages to "who
the smeg can't tell a linux prompt from a c:\> one ?"
> Now imagine one day someone actually implements such a thing for
> linux. The only difference between such a machine and a bunch of PCs
> would be the hardware memory access...
> just one more step of someone writing code to implement the NUMA stuff
> over, eg ethernet or UDP. And hey presto... distributed linux will be
> born.
Tasty. I'm waiting for the day when the distro installer asks "What's the
name of your trusted pool", so it's completely transparent...
Kate
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