[Beowulf] Virtual SMP

[Benjamin W. Mayer]

you might want to check out

http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix/

That will do the virtual SMP for you but I am not sure about MPI.

http://bccd.cs.uni.edu/ does MPI for sure.

For the OS and Application seperation I would think that is a feature of
high end software/hardware combinations.

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, arun murthy wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am new to Linux clusters.
>
> I want to know if it is possible to build a "virtual" SMP out of a cluster of 1-CPU or 2-CPU nodes? Is there a way to run the OS related tasks on only one CPU so that all others are completely free for running a parallel MPI-based application software?
>
> Thanks for your time and help.
>
> Best Regards
> Arun Murthy
>