On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:10:50PM -0600, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > I think Bob is thinking of a kind of distributed > processing more than clustering. I'd still call that a variety of clustering. PVM makes a number of machines work together on a single problem; as such, I regard that as a 'cluster'. > Clustering > seems (at least to me) to reduce the utility of > the hardware used for other purposes. not from what I've seen of the Mosix project. there are a number of ways to configure a mosix cluster; from full-time cluster member, to 'workstation that can submit jobs to cluster', to 'cluster member after working hours'. I don't know if mosix uses PVM (I think that's more of a separate layer, that can be orthogonal to mosix cluster membership). but the priciple holds (especially in bob's example); that any machine can be part of a cluster (subject to administrative constraints), and participate with minimal detriment to itself. Carl. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com