On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:13:28 +0100 Wolfgang Mader <wolfgang_ma...@brain-frog.de> wrote: > [snip] > For my needs, I want to run "usual" software, specifically R, the > statistics language. Utlimately, I want to bind several physical > hosts together to appear as one host on OS level, such that e.g. htop > would show the total number of cores accross all bound boxes.
What you're describing is a classic clustering environment, like a Beowulf cluster. Look into something like LinuxPMI/OpenMosix. It'll never be as smooth as "a single OS on a single logical host across multiple machines", but it's as close as you'll get. ~Celti
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