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Subject: Re: Scaling noise
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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