Re: postgres on a beowulf? (AMD)opteron?

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 06:27, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:28:32PM -0400, george young wrote:
> > Has anyone run postgres on a beowulf system?
>
> Can't be done. None of the cluster systems support cross-machne
> shared memory (this is actually a problem for Postgres and NUMA, as
> well, BTW).

VMSclusters and Tru64 clusters do, but, of course, it has to be
programmed for.

And the licensing costs are pretty steep...

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