Re: [openMosix-general] Need to build a cluster, advice required

[Mr G. <ang...@gm...>]

Thanks for the answer, I appreciate that. What if I have a transcode
program, that is actually designed to be parrallelised? *excuse the made up
word! But you get what I mean!*

On 04/09/07, Mark Mackey <ma...@cr...> wrote:
>
>  Hiya.
>
> I'm not completely sure that openMosix is what you want in this case. oM
> lets a cluster of computer look sort-of-like one big multiprocessor machine
> with lots of interprocessor latency. It provides multiprocessing capability
> on the level of enabling individual processes to migrate to different CPUs
> in the cluster. What it won't do for you is parallelise an existing
> non-parallel process.
>
> So, if you set up a 10-computer oM cluster, it won't let you transcode a
> DVD 10 times faster. It might in theory let you transcode 10 DVDs in
> parallel, but in practise transcoding is quite I/O intensive so you'd get
> much better throughput just running the machines individually and letting
> each one work on its own DVD.
>
> Mark.
>
> Mr Gabriel wrote:
>
> I need to build a cluster of which I'm going to use to transcode DVD
> content, into VCD content. I've searched for some howtos, but nothing. Any
> ideas, and pointers would be appreciated.
>
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