From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Vincent Schut Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:30:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: <138575260903030352s623807d7p5a3075b1f7a591f6@mail.gmail.com> <4f34febc0903030847t9aedad9haf4355e74953e6a3@mail.gmail.com> <138575260903040158r3ebc4e76haa5a328d2840bd5f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090213) In-Reply-To: <138575260903040158r3ebc4e76haa5a328d2840bd5f@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] threads vs forks Topicbox-Message-UUID: af8f2af0-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.