compute nodes, local sys calls ?

Eric Stofsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cluster.openmosix.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"When a process is migrated to another node, only the memory is moved. When
a command is executed, the code is loaded and begins executing on the
gateway machine. OpenMosix may then choose to migrate the process to another
node. During migration, only the executing code and data in memory is moved
to the destination node. All system calls by user's code (open, close files)
mean the process returns to the gateway to execute the system call (open,
close, get a line of data etc.). The process could migrate again once the
system call is complete."

Is there an easy way to have all system calls (including IO) execute on the
compute nodes (i.e. not return to the gateway).  Functionality, similar to
ssh'ing to each of the compute nodes and running commands, but having
openmosix controlling the "migration/remote execution".  I have an app that
does lots of sequential reads intermixed with lots of computation and the
gateway is becoming a bottleneck.  Note, I could easily have shared storage
mounted on each compute node.

Thanks.

Eric S
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