Michael Havens wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 13 July 2004 11:13, Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
>>1) You have a problem that can be broken into smaller chunks and the output
>>when recombined gives you the overall solution.
>>2) You want to divide the load of an application across multiple systems to
>>help it scale.
> 
> 
> So, then clustering it won't make it so that a couple of wimpy computer (I 
> have an AMD K6)  will act like a MANLY computer? Do you understand me? Like a 
> couple of older processors acting like an athlon or a PIII.

I built a MOSIX cluster about 18 months ago.  I was expecting super 
performance and was disappointed.  MOSIX is wonderful for multi-threaded 
applications and works by analyzing what node is under the heaviest load 
and then transfering a process to another node.  Unfortunately, the only 
time my system was under heavy load was once per day during a massive 
mysql update, which was pretty single-threaded; and when creating VCD's, 
which was pretty single threaded.  MOSIX was the wrong tool for solving 
my problem, but I sure learned alot about clustering and kernel compiles.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
CIO
AGD,LLC
www.agdllc.com
623-203-1760

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