[SunRescue] Cluster?

[James Lockwood]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Chris Conn wrote:

> I have a couple of IPX, SS2s and a SS20.  My SS20 is using Solaris 2.6. 
> My IPXs and SS2s have been stripped of their HDs before they were handed
> over to me.  I was wondering if I could experiment with clustering using
> these machines (they each have 32MB RAM).  Any comments?  I looked
> around for some software, but didn't find anything concrete.  I would
> also prefer to do it under Solaris since I don't want to format my SS20
> and use Linux ...

Do searches for MPI and PVM.  Many problems can be attacked effectively
in parallel without kernel modifications.  Global PID spaces can be
simulated if you really need them.

Sun has a clustering solution for large scale computation but it is
Ultra-only.

-James