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authorJoachim Nilsson <joachim@gnufans.org>2002-10-29 19:17:14 +0000
committerJoachim Nilsson <joachim@gnufans.org>2002-10-29 19:17:14 +0000
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-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:
+# <a name="Distributed_Computing"> Distributed Computing </a>
-<http://www.openmosix.org> <http://openmosix.sourceforge.net> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmosix>
+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.
+* <http://www.openmosix.org/>
+* <http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/>
+* <http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmosix/>
+
+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
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+Various grammatical fixes and tidying up. -- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 29 Oct 2002