Re: [9fans] Plan9 usage but used to parallel MPI on linux..

2016-10-31 Thread Richard Miller
Quoting from the Plan 9 wiki (whose web interface doesn't seem to be functioning at present): > LEVEL 8: RESEARCH AND COMPUTATION GRIDS WITH CUSTOM CONTROL LAYERS AND UNIQUE > CAPABILITIES > > In its role as a research operating system, the capabilities of Plan > 9 as a distributed system are of

Re: [9fans] Plan9 usage but used to parallel MPI on linux..

2016-10-30 Thread Chris McGee
I would be interested in manuals or papers on this subject as well. Plan9 is well suited to distributed computing with its per process namespaces and network transparent resource access. Do grid computing projects built on plan9 use the built-in OS facilities such as cpu and 9p or do they genera

[9fans] Plan9 usage but used to parallel MPI on linux..

2016-10-30 Thread Darren Wise
Heya folks, Can anyone point me in the right direction of some manuals concerning the use of a beowulf cluster style of computing setup, i'm so used to MPI installs and limiting myself to terminals that being what it seems ooout-f-he-box this already is setup with parallel computing in min