[Fwd: [Oscar-users] running 3rd party apllications on an OSCAR cluster]

[Stephen L. S. <sc...@or...>]

Hi Mat,

Nothing is free in this world...

The application has to be coded to use a parallel/distributed computing
environment.  Typically this is done by using PVM or MPI (both included
in oscar).  Using these tools, the application is separated by the
programmer into parallel-communicating tasks - similar to function
calls, the significant difference being that they execute simultaneously
and communicate over the wire when passing messages.

The application (algorithm) first needs to be paralizable - that is have
tasks with no dependencies so that they may execute in parallel - before
one can undertake writing a parallel version.

enjoy,

stephen.




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Oscar-users] running 3rd party apllications on an OSCAR
         cluster
   Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:03:21 -0500
   From: Matt Rossmeisl <sa...@ex...>
     To: osc...@li...

If I run a third party application, such as a gameserver, will it
automatically be split up and sent as separate processes across cluster
nodes? I.E. can one process be taken care of on 2 nodes at the
same time.

Matt