Small Linux Mosix cluster system
We recently installed a small Linux cluster. There are two versions of Mosix:
a kernel patch (K-MOSIX) that can be applied to a specific Linux kernel, and a
user-level package (U-MOSIX) that can be used with different Unix platforms.
We installed K-MOSIX, because we're running Linux and there's no need to
reconfigure the user-space programs. But if we find time we'll install U-MOSIX
too and test which (dis)advantages each concept has.
We built just a temporary cluster with nodes that boot from CD. This allows us
to dynamically add/remove nodes. We just have to connect a new computer to the
LAN and boot from CD-ROM.
The master computer we used to manage the whole cluster was a laptop (1GHz CPU,
256MiB RAM) running Debian GNU/Linux.
As node we used a 1,4GHz Athlon, 512MiB RAM for the first test. The second test
performed at school, 10 nodes (933MHz, 256MiB RAM) participated the cluster.
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