* Load sharing in Plan 9
@ 1995-08-05 16:01 Gary
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From: Gary @ 1995-08-05 16:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
I think 'cpu' is the most sophisticated load-sharing command. You could
use this to easily implement a coarse-grain parallel make, but I suspect
most of the time you'd be better off with the Pentium.
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* Load sharing in Plan 9
@ 1995-08-05 16:39 Sandy
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From: Sandy @ 1995-08-05 16:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
Given a PC running Plan 9, one user & a desire for more computational
horsepower (mainly for large compiles & CPU-eating background jobs like
searching for factors of huge numbers), I can afford:
either another PC, 16 megs, fast 486 or low-end Pentium
or half a dozen Sun 3/60s each with 16 megs & 20 MHz 68020
Costs on these are roughly equal.
Does Plan 9 have load-sharing support to make the multi-Sun
configuration an interesting parallel compute server? Or has
anyone ported PVM or other similar code?
--
Sandy Harris
sharris@fox.nstn.ns.ca
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