Re: Scaling noise

Steven Cole
2003-09-04T02:50:51Z

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 20:31, Martin J. Bligh wrote:

> I don't think the initial development baby-steps are *too* bad, and don't
> even have to be done on a NUMA box - a pair of PCs connected by 100baseT
> would work. Personally, I think the first step is to do task migration -
> migrate a process without it realising from one linux instance to another.
> Start without the more complex bits like shared filehandles, etc. Something
> that just writes 1,2,3,4 to a file. It could even just use shared root NFS,
> I think that works already.
>
> Basically swap it out on one node, and in on another, though obviously
> there's more state to take across than just RAM. I was talking to Tridge
> the other day, and he said someone had hacked up something in userspace
> which kinda worked ... I'll get some details.
>

This project may be applicable: http://bproc.sourceforge.net/
BProc is used here: http://www.lanl.gov/projects/pink/

Steven