Re: [SSI-devel] OpenSSI Development status

[David Bo J. <db...@el...>]

Hi
 I am interested in a port for x86_64, unfortunately I am not experienced
 enough to do the work alone.
However John Steinman seems to be working on it but have not updated CVS 
with his changes.

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Florian Delizy" <fd...@e8...>
To: <ssi...@li...>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 11:18 AM
Subject: [SSI-devel] OpenSSI Development status


> Hi,
>
> I wanted to make sure of some points regarding the current development
> status of Open SSI before trying to use it...
>
> - Is OpenSSI supporting x86_64 (ie: amd64) processors ? when I look into
> the ML, I can see prior tracks of such questions and some people
> answering that it should come soon, but nobody explicitly saying it's
> done ... Moreover, looking at the road map todo list there is this line :
>
> "Support 64 bit platforms - AMD64, EMT64. (There is code for IA64 in 
> CVS.)"
>
> which would mean that it is still to be done ...
>
>
> - Is OpenSSI needing a homogeneous network, (do all nodes need to be
> exactly identical ? same processor, same memory size, same network
> cards, same hard drive ....) and if not (I hope so ;) ) what does
> explicitly needs to be identical over the cluster network ?
> can the development version migrate a task already running on one node
> to another for instance, is this situation possible :
>
> task is running on A, migrate it from A to B, then from B to C ?
>
> After a first look on the project, it seems that I will have to install
> a distributed filesystem at least, so that files get accessed from all
> nodes, what about sockets ?
>
> - I see an interesting point in the todo list :
>
> "Process pairs and checkpointing"
>
> Is this point started already, is it functional ?
>
>
>
>
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