On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:46:34AM +0100, Phil Trinder wrote:
Paul,
The GdH implementation is currently used here, and is basically in beta-release form. If you would use it we could wrap up a and X86/Linux version for you.
That will be very sweet! I'd love to play with this thing ;-) Please post the link when it is ready.
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Don't know a lot about Mosix, but if the PVM calls in the 3 GUM communications modules can be replaced with Mosix shared-memory routines that would give a low effort port of GUM to a Mosix cluster. I'd expect Mosix communication to be *much* faster than PVM: it's so generic that it absorbs a lot of time, e.g. probing for a message takes 2000 machine cycles.
That would be indeed a very good research field to work on, I guess Murray's group will be interested to pick it up from here. Though we are also experimenting some GpH stuff in a our company, we do not have the required research force or skill (yet). Regards, .paul.