Re: [BProc] A possible new user...

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On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 08:05:04AM -0700, Roberto Aguiar Veiga wrote:
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> Hello, friends:
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>      I'm responsible for implementing a cluster of Linux machines at the Department of Physics at the Federal University of Uberlandia (Brazil). Surfing through the web, I discovered BProc and I am seriously thinking about using it.
> 
>      I have performed tests with Mosix. I'd like to know: are Mosix and BProc similar? Is BProc by itself capable of deal with parallel applications or will I need other softwares, like MPI or PVM?

BProc is not that similar to Mosix.  BProc does not do automatic or
transparent process migration.  The good thing about it is that
there's no added overhead for most applications when running on remote
machines.  You will still need MPI or some other library to do
parallel computation.

- Erik