Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:29:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Chan Fook Sheng <chanfooksheng@pacific.net.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to cluster a few FBSD together to get a larger memory space Message-ID: <20020821052936.GA97484@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.44.0208210914580.30502-100000@carefree.pacific.net.sg> References: <Pine.BSO.4.44.0208210914580.30502-100000@carefree.pacific.net.sg>
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In the last episode (Aug 21), Chan Fook Sheng said: > i wonder if it is possible to cluster a few FBSD boces together so > that a application can make use the shared memory and CPU power? > > I mean the app will see one virtual system consisting of aggregated > memory and cpu of all the systems. No; you actually don't want the memory to share, as the speed difference between RAM and the network is too great. As for sharing CPU, take a look at ports/net/pvm and net/npich. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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