Re: [Beowulf] Programming for heartbeat

2013-05-07 Thread Douglas Eadline
> On 1 May 2013 04:32, Caio Freitas de Oliveira > wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm completely new to all this beowulf thing. I've just now connected >>> my >>> 2 PCs using Heartbeat + Pacemaker, but I don't have a clue of how to >>> use >>> them as a single computer. > >> Single computer - maybe go

Re: [Beowulf] Programming for heartbeat

2013-05-07 Thread Hearns, John
On 1 May 2013 04:32, Caio Freitas de Oliveira wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm completely new to all this beowulf thing. I've just now connected my >> 2 PCs using Heartbeat + Pacemaker, but I don't have a clue of how to use >> them as a single computer. > Single computer - maybe google "Single System

Re: [Beowulf] Programming for heartbeat

2013-05-07 Thread Andrew Holway
On 1 May 2013 04:32, Caio Freitas de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm completely new to all this beowulf thing. I've just now connected my > 2 PCs using Heartbeat + Pacemaker, but I don't have a clue of how to use > them as a single computer. Single computer - maybe google "Single System Image".

Re: [Beowulf] Programming for heartbeat

2013-05-06 Thread John Hearns
I echo what mark and Peter have said. " none of them (at least from what I've seen) is what I want" What would you like to achieve? Maybe you would like the cluster to behave in what several years agoo the Mosix project was able to do - process migration between nodes in a cluster? On 7 May 201

Re: [Beowulf] Programming for heartbeat

2013-05-06 Thread Peter St. John
I'm pretty sure (but correct me if I'm wrong) that Oracle's "message passing toolkit" would be built on OpenMPI and not the other way around; OpenMPI is open source, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMPI and does not require a software license from Sun or Oracle. you can download (free) OpenMPI

Re: [Beowulf] Programming for heartbeat

2013-05-06 Thread Mark Hahn
> I'm completely new to all this beowulf thing. I've just now connected my > 2 PCs using Heartbeat + Pacemaker, heartbeat/pacemaner are for high-availability cluster, whereas beowulf clustering is primarily about high-performance or -throughput clustering. a beowulf cluster may use HA technique

[Beowulf] Programming for heartbeat

2013-05-06 Thread Caio Freitas de Oliveira
Hi all, I'm completely new to all this beowulf thing. I've just now connected my 2 PCs using Heartbeat + Pacemaker, but I don't have a clue of how to use them as a single computer. Pacemaker has a number of predefined resources but none of them (at least from what I've seen) is what I want. I'