[geeks] Heterogeneous clusters

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:05:27PM +0100, Chris Byrne wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with heterogeneous clusters?

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> Has anyone here successfully clustered multiple architectures together like
> this? I know there are several projects that can in theory do this, I just
> haven't used any of them.
> 
> Even cooler would be the ability to cluster them running different Os's, but
> I'd say that's a bit much to ask. Fro what I can tell this grid engine stuff
> is junk.

I did something with XML-RPC for fun once.  Less than ideal solution though.

I'm given to understand that MPI works across platforms.  And, there is a
multiplatform Python/MPI binding.  So, write the program in MPI, and 
distribute that way?  I don't know if it would actually work or not.



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Joshua D. Boyd