[gmx-users] Re: GROMACS + MOSIX

Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva alan at biof.ufrj.br
Wed Apr 17 17:27:25 CEST 2002


Thank you Mikko, you were perfect in saying what tried to say.

>  > >1- Unfortunately you can *cheat* LAM-MPI (or MPICH).
>  > Or do you  mean fortunately?
>  > >2- MOSIX and LAM-MPI (or MPICH) can co-exist in the same cluster.
>  > >
>  > >	If run a parallel job with MPI, MOSIX gets knowing and so it try
>  > >balance the load although it can migrate MPI procs, so it just avoid that
>  > >procs that MPI is requiring.


> Mosix will balance everything else that _is_ allowed to migrate and
> work around the load of the MPI processes.
>
> Migratable sockets are also on the to-do list of the openMosix
> project, I think.
>
> Mikko

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Alan Wilter S. da Silva
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 Laboratório de Física Biológica
  Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho
   Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ
    Rio de Janeiro, Brasil




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