[DGD] Mutli-CPU Support?

[Kevin N. Carpenter]

Maybe its left over Holiday spirit, but I'm in a hopeful mood <laugh>.

OpenMosix concentrates on evenly using multiple CPUs across multiple 
physical machines.  It does so via migrating an active process from an 
overworked machine to another machine in the cluster that currently has 
resources to spare.

I made the presumption, always a dangerous thing, that DGD/MP was 
focused on utilizing multiple CPUs within one physical machine.  
Typically I think of that, or its big brother (high speed interconnected 
clusters, the $1M type) as "tightly coupled" CPUs.  OpenMosix comes 
across as being targetted at more "loosely coupled" environments, often 
built up from $1K type machines.

Thanks for the dialog.

Kevin C.

>I think that you are unrealistically hopeful about the possibility of
>combining the benefits of two very different projects, just because
>both employ the term "multi-processor".  DGD/MP is essentially a
>multi-processor LPC operating system, in competition with, rather than
>as complement of, OpenMosix.
>
>I am doing this for reasons very different from the ones that motivate
>you: I care only about speed.  Therefore, having shared memory to me
>looks like a very superior setup, indeed.
>
>  
>

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