Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:49:01 +0000 ( ) | From | Henrik Olsen <> | Subject | Re: *** Draft 6 - Press Release *** |
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Simon Kenyon wrote: > On 20-Jan-99 Mick Haigh wrote: > > * Already legendary Linux performance is significantly enhanced. High end > > SMP support scales well, supporting up to 64-bit processor systems. In > > addition to this, Linux offers a revolutionary new system, called Beowulf > > <http://www.beowulf.org>, which allows for multiple computer systems to > > be used as though they were one single machine. > > revolutionary new - i think not > microsoft call it wolfpack > dec call it clusters > > the term is "single system image" > -- > simon It's MSSpeak to call something that's several years old "revolutionary new".
<simplification warning on> You'll get severely burned if you try to compare WolfPack with Beowulf, they have totally different purposes, and definitely don't do the same.
The MS WolfPack/Novell WolfMountain thing is not something we really support well at the moment, it's the ability of one machine to take over a process/ressource from another and continue working as if nothing happened. In Linux terms, this is what the checkpointing API and Linux-HA is about.
Beowulf is a machine architechture for sharing computing power, or disc bandwidth or whatever to make something that looks like a much faster machine and is something Linux supports very well indeed.
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You shouldn't confuse the two things, since that would make for extremely good targets for factual attacks by MS, instead of just FUD.
-- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.
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