RAM for cluster net boot?

Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_clark at comcast.net
Wed Feb 6 12:41:21 EST 2008


Scott Ehrlich writes:

> Also, if using Rocks or something
> similar, will that help cluster the RAM together so 4 servers x 4 GB
> RAM each = 16 GB available?

If my google-fu is decent and "Rocks" is what I think it is, then
Rocks seems to come with some MPI-flavored software, and MPI (to my
knowledge) does not come with a distributed shared memory subsystem,
so, essentially, the answer to your question is "no".

Kind regards,

--kevin
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