Re: understanding 9grid and clustering?

On Sep 7, 2004, at 10:13 AM, Ronald G. Minnich wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, alexandr wrote:
>> 2) can parallel program run on more computers at same moment?
>
> yes, I've done this, and Plan 9 made it very easy.
>
>> 3) can forks or threads run on different machines?
>
> sharing memory? no.

Does that  mean that it would be hard to do?

I am pretty ignorant about single system image memory schemes, except 
for what I have read on the SGI site.

Is there anything we could borrow from Linux that would help?

rob



> ron