MAtt-
What is this going to do to the current omtools tree?
Evan
PS>> moved it over to the developers list for this.
On 7/7/06, Matt Dew <Matt.Dew-nV4p5R2ZCaoAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Felipe, Gianluca, et al,
>
> Regarding 2.6.
>
> One of the problems with 2.6 is that communications between remote and home
> nodes isn't done very well. There are race conditions and no synchronicity
> between nodes, so it's very easy for a process to crash.
>
> The solution to this that Tab and I came up with is to use a kernel deamon.
> The daemon, kcomd, handles the communications instead of the processes
> themselves doing it. The processes create packets and inform kcomd they
> have a packet waiting, and kcomd takes it and sends it appropriately. It
> receives packets and gives them to the processes safely. It also written to
> be SMP and preempt safe. I'm currently working on it and the foundation is
> mostly there.
>
> I will send a patch next week to the list so people can look at it. I need
> help looking for bugs and bad design decisions on my part. I'll start
> modifying the rest of the code to use it after that.
>
> I highly doubt that this is the only big problem with om-2.6, but it is a
> major one so this should give a push to getting a working om-2.6 out the door
> by year's end.
>
> Matt
>
>
> >>> Gianluca <emmegian-whZMOeQn8C0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 07/07/06 9:26 AM >>>
> Dear Felipe,
> I think that OpenMosix (and Mosix in general) is a good solution for
> your processing.
> But, If you are in trouble with OpenMosix and SATA... you can try with
> Mosix and SATA (http://www.mosix.org).
> In fact, the OpenMosix is the opensource fork of Mosix project.
> But, there is an official Mosix patch for 2.4.32 kernel.
> I don't know when OpenMosix 2.6 will be released... but my hopes to see
> openmosix 2.6 released this year are very little!! :-(
> It seems that there is a very slow developing of OpenMosix 2.6 ... and
> no more support for 2.4 kernels :-( :-(
> I don't know why.
>
> Ciao,
> Gianluca
>
> Felipe ha scritto:
> > Hi Gianluca and Jürgen
> >
> > My conclusion is:
> >
> > My PCs are dell optiplex GX620 and these have the controller ICH7
> > chipset for sata disk and the libata for it controller have not support
> > for kernel 2.4.26.
> >
> > What do you think? and how can resolve this problem?
> >
> > It is my first experience with cluster hpc. The aim of this cluster is
> > procesing statistic data
> >
> > is the om the correct software for these aim?
> >
> > according to my investigate YES is correct, but i want to know your
> > opinion
> >
> > do you know when the om for 2.6 is stable?
> >
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> >
>
>
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