Re: UML is now self-hosting!
Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Sun, 5 May 2002 09:21:33 -0700
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 07:25:00AM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> mfedyk@matchmail.com said:
> > How would this be better than MOSIX, or other clustering solutions?
>
> MOSIX (or Compaq's SSI) would certainly be a way of doing it. It happens
> that there's a particularly simple way of doing it with UML. You'd partition
> UML's 'physical' memory between the hosts, and use the fact that those pages
> are really virtual to fault them between hosts as needed. This would perform
> particularly badly, but its simplicity appeals to me.
See http://www.bitmover.com/cc-pitch/ for some more on this idea. I think
the UML approach would be very cool.
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