From 10702c7752bfe05ac702d5a65464a732662ea576 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joachim Nilsson Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:17:14 +0000 Subject: none --- Hurd/DistributedServers.mdwn | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Hurd/DistributedServers.mdwn') diff --git a/Hurd/DistributedServers.mdwn b/Hurd/DistributedServers.mdwn index 2c250c08..ce55f3df 100644 --- a/Hurd/DistributedServers.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/DistributedServers.mdwn @@ -1,9 +1,17 @@ -Mach was originally designed to run on SMPs. Later, it was extended to be a distributed OS. A group of workstations with Mach can act as a single powerful SMP. Thus, Mach is also called a Single System Image (SSI). Mach microkernel provides a good infrastructure for distributed computing, including thread migration, inter-thread communition (both locally and remotely), load balancing and fault-tolerance. Hurd, thus, has great potential for distributed computing. Before further development information is available, let's see a related project for Linux kernels, OpenMosix. You can reach it at: +# Distributed Computing - +Mach was originally designed to run on SMP systems. Later, it was extended to be a distributed OS. A group of workstations with Mach can act as a single powerful SMP machine. Thus, Mach is also called a Single System Image (SSI). -Openmosix makes patches to various versions of Linux kernels to make them "distributedly-enabled". However, since Linux kernel is monolithic, patches should be updated with each new version of kernel. That can be a nightmare, with regard to the pace at which Linux kernels are being developed. +The Mach micro kernel provides a good infrastructure for distributed computing, including thread migration, inter-thread communition (both locally and remotely), load balancing and fault-tolerance. The Hurd, thus, has great potential for distributed computing. Before further development information is available, let's see a related project for Linux kernels, OpenMosix. You can reach it at: -By contrast, distributed computing can be more easily implemented in Hurd as various servers. Efforts will be taken to make it happen. +* +* +* + +OpenMosix makes patches to various versions of Linux kernels to make them "distributedly-enabled". However, since the Linux kernel is monolithic, patches should be updated with each new version of kernel. That can be a nightmare, with regard to the pace at which Linux kernels are being developed. + +By contrast, distributed computing can be more easily implemented in the Hurd as various servers. Efforts will be taken to make it happen. -- [[Main/LaudneyRen]] - 29 Sep 2002 + +Various grammatical fixes and tidying up. -- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 29 Oct 2002 -- cgit v1.2.3