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List:       gentoo-alpha
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-alpha] Re: another option for openmosix on alpha
From:       Joao Patricio <Joao.Patricio () aim ! estt ! ipt ! pt>
Date:       2004-06-05 17:45:27
Message-ID: 200406051845.27719.Joao.Patricio () aim ! estt ! ipt ! pt
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According to what it is mentioned in their site, openmosix is supposed to run 
in an heterogenous network, with different architectures. I have x86's and a 
few alphas in my network, and I plan to give openmosix a try some time in the 
future.

Regards,
Joao Patricio

On Saturday 05 June 2004 16:52, Bryan Østergaard wrote:
> Hi Laurent.
>
> According to the openmosix website, openmosix only supports x86 at the
> moment with plans to support ia64 and opteron in the future. Besides, I
> don't see how process migration etc. would work across very different
> architectures. So I'm afraid it's not going to work with your alpha box.
>
> Regards,
> Bryan Østergaard
>
> On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 16:37, lgatto wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I got recently a second-hand digital workstation and I am installing
> > gentoo in it. So far, so good, but I planned to combine the box with
> > three old pentiums to build an openmosix cluster. Unfortunately, on the
> > online package database, openmosix is not available. Neverheless, there
> > is a /usr/portage/sys-kernel/openmosix-sources directory with ebuilds
> > (and other related tools).
> > When I do a
> > # emerge -pv openmosix-sources
> > I get that the packages are 'masked by -* keywords'
> > (ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~alpha" does not help). What does that mean? Is there
> > a way to get openmosix working or maybe somebody can suggest an
> > alternative.
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Laurent

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