Greetings, I admin a mid-sized Debian Sarge based OpenMOSIX cluster and am
investigating transitioning to an OpenSSI system since it is becoming
difficult to add newer hardware with only a 2.4 kernel. OpenSSI stable
also has this restraint, though I see a lot of work being done to get
support for newer kernels. Specifically the packages for Etch here:
http://www.atlantech.com/~john/openssi-etch/
I was wondering how far along OpenSSI actually is. For example, could
OpenSSI on Debian Etch be used for a production cluster right now? Or
would the resulting cluster be too crash happy? If so, is there a timeline
for when things might be suitable? I don't need a lot of the higher-end
features of OpenSSI, mainly just basic process migration as essentially it
just has to do what OpenMOSIX does. I want to run this on Core Quad
systems, so I need kernel 2.6.18 at the very least to support the
hardware. 64-bit support would be very nice, but not necessary.
If I don't get a response I'll just have to try ;), but I thought I'd ask
as well. Possibly I could also get some time-saving tips, like the
packages aren't good, but using the code from svn should be, etc. Our
other main option is something like Platform LAVA, but I'd really prefer
migration as opposed to a queue.
Thanks in advance,
Scott T. Knauert
Wesleyan Physics Department
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