I admit I'm being lazy here, but is it possible to run different OS's from the same server - virtualisation - out to a thin client processor?
I have just seen some niffty thin client processors at work, and wondered about the ability to do this so that when the LUG gives public dmos, for example, everything is on one server and it's that server that just needs to update itself. Just an idea to bounce around and get some feedback on please y'all. Ian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Ewart Sent: 24 April 2007 18:51 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: High Performance Computing On Tuesday, 24.04.2007 at 17:26 +0100, Thomas Steffen wrote: > >One of the many topics that have my interest at the moment is that of > >high performance computing by using cluster / parallel computing. > >Can Ubuntu support this without a lot of hacking around? > > That depends a bit on your software. The most popular free tool in > high performance computing is PVM, which uses an explicite > communication model. If your software supports PVM, it should run on > Ubuntu "out of the box". There are alternative solutions (such as > MOSIX), but they do not all provide the same raw power as PVM. Comparing PVM and MOSIX is an "apples and oranges" comparison, to some extent. As I understand it: MOSIX and OpenMOSIX are generally designed to run applications unmodified. PVM, on the other hand, needs applications specifically written under the PVM framework, i.e. there are 'pvm_*' function calls in your code. PVM may well be more powerful, but it's scope is more limited. Dave. -- Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - freenode: davee All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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