[wplug] Windows clustering using VMWare and openMosix ... (theory)

[John Harrold]

Sometime in October Chris Romano assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Say you had a 4 node cluster setup using openMosix.  Could you install
| VMWare with W2K as the guest OS and have a windows cluster?  I know
| that with openMosix, it will only migrate processes and can not split
| a process between multiple CPUs.  Would everything running under
| VMWare have it's own process?  Would VMWare hold that process to a
| single CPU and not let it be migrated to a different one?  If it would
| work, it would be a great way to have a nice cluster for people who
| are stuck with a MS product like SQL server.

I had a similar "bright" idea with matlab. We have a rack with a few
computers which we just use for running simulations and performing
optimizations in matlab. Since the computers have a few different cpu
speeds, I read about openmosix and thought "this will allow us to make
better use of our computers". So I setup openmosix on three of the
computers two slow ones and a fast one. Next I fired up matlab and ran
something which would take a day to run on the slow computer with mosix up
and running. Then using the openmosix utilities I wached and waited for the 
program to move on over... 

Needless to say, I watched for a while, went to google and searched for
openmosix and matlab. Then I came to the conclusion that I'd have to run
matlab as a single threaded process to even get it to work at all. I was a
little frustrated at this point, so I kind of gave up on openmosix for our
purposes. 

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