Messages in this thread | | | Date | 02 Oct 1997 15:57:48 Z | From | "Svein Erik Brostigen" <> | Subject | Sharing RAM over the 'net (was Re: Process Migration on Linux - |
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Recent postings said: > So why can't you share the memory ? > > Something pmap calling pmap on another box, over the network, and so on. > > Of course this would be real slow over ethernet, but what about if you > have a host which has multiple cpu's with dedicated memory for each ? > > I think in those sort of instances sharing memory over some sort of > "network interface" is an interesting idea and process/thread migration > could be very sexy. But perhaps Linux cannot support that without huge > rewrites ?
Why not implement a system where you can distribute sub-routines and then execute the subroutine on a different machine, even a different OS might be possible in some instances, where the handler takes care of exchanging the information nessecary for the processes/sub-routines to keep working and to work on results from another proc/sub-routine?
This, if I am correct, has been done already in some systems. I know I read something about it way back in time or am I dreaming? :-)
If it would be possible to do this, we would really have "Network Computing".
It would also be nessecary to develop a method to make your computer available to the pool and have a central to handle the requests and available resources. This could be both a local and a more global pool.
Best Regards Svein Erik Brostigen Special Consultant Oslo Kommune - KSR, Trondheimsv. 5, N-0560 Oslo, Norway sveinerik.brostigen@ksr.okpost.telemax.no
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