Re: [9fans] threads vs forks

[Vincent Schut <schut@sarvision.nl>]

hugo rivera wrote:
> Thanks for the advice.
> Nevertheless I am in no position to decide what pieces of software the
> cluster will run, I just have to deal with what I have, but anyway I
> can suggest other possibilities.

Well, depends on how you define 'software the cluster will run'. Do you
mean cluster management software, or really any program or script or
python module that needs to be installed on each node? Because for pp,
you won't need any cluster software. pp is just some python module and
helper scripts. You *do* need to install this (pure python) module on
each node, yes, but that's it, nothing else needed.
Btw, you said 'it's a small cluster, about 6 machines'. Now I'm not an
expert, but I don't think you can do threading/forking from one machine
to another (on linux). So I suppose there already is some cluster
management software involved? And while you appear to be "in no position
to decide what pieces of software the cluster will run", you might want
to enlighten us on what this cluster /will/ run? Your best solution
might depend on that...

Cheers,
Vincent.