Is it possible to run Ubuntu as Shared OS (Multiprocessing)?

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:10:29PM +0100, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
>However, and it's a big however, there's not much you can usefully do
>to cluster a PC, two PPCs, and some Suns in any meaningful way. Both
>OpenMosix and Xen are x86 specific, and even in general the machines
>have such fundamental differences as number formats that it would be
>difficult to share work between them. The best you could do would
>probably be to have a queuing system distribute multiple jobs to the
>machines, one job per machine at any given time. That assumes that you
>can build whatever software is going to process the jobs on all of the
>architectures. Furthermore unless the OP is loaded I'd guess the Suns
>are old second hand ones, in which case a modern PC is likely to thrash
>them for straightforward speed, so it's not worth it anyway. It might
>be better to use the extra machines as servers for stuff like
>mail/dns/dhcp/ldap/etc.

There has been quite a bit of work on clustering based on virtual
machines (I vaguely remember some work done on a distributed Lisp system
at Tokyo Institute of Technology, that was in '98 though!). All I've
heard have been research-level stuff.

If you want to distribute compiling then it should be possible to use
cross compilers and rather complex setup of distcc. (There's another
distributed compiler used in KDE as well, icecream I think it's called.
It might be worth a check.)

/M

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