Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Process Migration on Linux - Impossible? | From | Eberhard Burr <> | Date | 27 Sep 1997 20:57:12 +0200 |
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Larry McVoy <lm@linux.cobaltmicro.com> writes:
> [process migration, et al] > > I've done this before. You don't really mean process migration, you mean > remote execution unless I misunderstood. Migration is something that you > do to an existing process, remote execution is something you can do to > a new process. The former is (a) a bad idea, and (b) extremely difficult and > invasive to the kernel to fully implement. Fortunately, remote execution > is extremely useful and quite easy to implement. In fact, I've just started > rewriting a version of this I had running in Sun about 6 years ago.
Fabio clearly wrote about moving a running process from one machine to another, so I assume my hint is of no value to him but still: If you only want CPU bound processes executed remotely over the net, you can always look at MPI (message passing interface) and if my fading memory serves me right, there's a free implementation called Mpich. I once compiled it on my Linux box and got the 'hello world' to compile but that was just for fun since I have only one computer anyway.
MPI is pretty easy to use for your own distributed programs but cannot cooperate with existing binaries.
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