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According to what it is mentioned in their site, openmosix is supposed to run |
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in an heterogenous network, with different architectures. I have x86's and a |
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few alphas in my network, and I plan to give openmosix a try some time in the |
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future. |
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Regards, |
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Joao Patricio |
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On Saturday 05 June 2004 16:52, Bryan Østergaard wrote: |
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> Hi Laurent. |
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> |
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> According to the openmosix website, openmosix only supports x86 at the |
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> moment with plans to support ia64 and opteron in the future. Besides, I |
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> don't see how process migration etc. would work across very different |
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> architectures. So I'm afraid it's not going to work with your alpha box. |
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> |
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> Regards, |
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> Bryan Østergaard |
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> |
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> On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 16:37, lgatto wrote: |
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> > Hello all, |
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> > I got recently a second-hand digital workstation and I am installing |
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> > gentoo in it. So far, so good, but I planned to combine the box with |
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> > three old pentiums to build an openmosix cluster. Unfortunately, on the |
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> > online package database, openmosix is not available. Neverheless, there |
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> > is a /usr/portage/sys-kernel/openmosix-sources directory with ebuilds |
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> > (and other related tools). |
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> > When I do a |
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> > # emerge -pv openmosix-sources |
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> > I get that the packages are 'masked by -* keywords' |
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> > (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~alpha" does not help). What does that mean? Is there |
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> > a way to get openmosix working or maybe somebody can suggest an |
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> > alternative. |
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> > |
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> > Thank you in advance, |
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> > |
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> > Laurent |
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