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Re: MOSIX vs. Condor (Re: some Linux news)



Ariel Nowersztern wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Tuvik Beker wrote:
> 
> > >From your description, MOSIX sounds VERY similar in concept to Condor,
> > with two basic exceptions:
> > 1. Condor is a multi-platform load balancing system.
> > 2. Condor requires no kernel modifications, and can run in a
> > heterogenous environment.
> >
> > There must be an edge to MOSIX (I guess), so I wonder what it is.
> 
> Haven't heard of Condor, and I'm not into MOSIX either. MOSIX transfers a
> process IN MID FLIGHT to another machine. The user doesn't know which
> processor the process runs on. Load balancing is dynamic and automatic.
> The process doesn't have to support any api, link with any library or be
> in any way different from yer common program. MOSIX is multi-platform and
> heterogenous ad-kedei binary compatibility (they move the process code
> segment around, the other process has to know how to run it!) i.e. The
> process will move from the slow 386 to the fast PentiumII, you don't have
> to know a thing.
> 
> Does Condor do that?

In short - yes.
Take a look at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/overview

I'll be glad to hear from anyone else who's aware of the differences
between the two systems.

Tuvik
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