C-Sharifi Cluster Engine: The Second Success Story on "Kernel-Level
OK, how about providing some meaty content? google shows me that
you've put this fairly content-light PR on several groups and websites.
as Usability. Although the latter belief was hard to realize, a sample
why was it hard? there have been a fair number of several kernel-based
dist-OS approaches (MOSIX comes to mind, but scyld, and also a host of older
academic systems.)
byproduct called DIPC was built purely based on this thesis and openly
announced to the Linux community worldwide in 1993. This was admired for
being able to provide necessary supports for distributed communication at
the Kernel Level of Linux for the first time in the world, and for providing
page-based distributed shared memory has been done many, many times,
and operate in a very easy-to-understand manner (like a cache with 4KB
rather than 64KB lines.) can you quantify the advantage to managing
the DSM in the kernel? I'm sure you're aware that "playing MMU games"
is not highly regarded in many circles because of its slowness -
have you figured out a way around that?
regards, mark hahn.
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