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Hi! |
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as I'm the OpenMosix (www.openmosix.org) guy for gentoo I would inform |
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you about the benefits you could have using openmosix and would ask you |
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to test the openmosix-ebuilds. |
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In the portage tree we have at the moment: |
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- openmosix-sources (2.4.18-r5 and 2.4.19-r5 are the latest, but masked) |
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The patched vanilla-sources including openmosix and evms. |
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- openmosix-user (latest is 0.2.4, masked, too) |
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The userland tools needed to manage your cluster. |
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- openmosixview (1.2, guess what... masked) |
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A nice gui which shows you the current load in you cluster. |
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OpenMosix will allow you to share your CPU-power across several machines |
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(x86-only at the moment) building a cluster containing several nodes. |
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So let's make an example: You have a slow machine and a fast one. If you |
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want to compile a new kernel on the slow one OpenMosix will "migrate" |
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these processes to the fast one. This means you could compile your |
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kernel at approx. the same speed you would on your good machine. |
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Having many nodes in your cluster the speed increases with every node. |
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BUT this happens completely transparent. You will have to do nothing. |
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Nodes can even join and leave a running cluster with no bad effects. |
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After this short introduction I hope some of you will test OpenMosix and |
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give me some feedback. |
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Thanks. |
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Bye |
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Michael Imhof <tantive@g.o> |
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Gentoo Developer |
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