[Tfug] Communications reliability

[Eric M. Gearhart]

I don't have much to add to this, other than wow that sounds *really* cool. Basically the nodes on the cluster are assumed to be unreliable, and if one goes down the workload that specific node was assigned would just be dynamically reassigned. 

Have you found any project that addresses this? It sounds like it would be a "plugin" for openMOSIX, if there was such a thing. 

Anyways damn it sounds cool :) 
Eric 
http://nixwizard.net 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bexley Hall" <bexley401 at yahoo.com> 
To: tfug at tfug.org 
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:25:38 AM (GMT-0700) America/Phoenix 
Subject: [Tfug] Communications reliability 

Hi, 

I'm working on a distributed application. I 
have done this sort of thing before, *but*, 
always in an environment where the interconnect 
wiring was considered a *crucial* element of 
the system. I.e., playing a role similar to 
the data bus between a CPU and it's memory 
(in that you *assume* the integrity of that). 
If a cable was cut, unplugged or an interface 
died, it was *proper* for the system to "stop 
working" (though in an orderly, controlled 
fashion).