| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PgSQL Performance ML <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: postgres on a beowulf? (AMD)opteron? |
| Date: | 2003-05-21 15:45:50 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0305210945150.22863-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On 21 May 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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...
someone was on the list last year and had gotten postgresql (sorta)
working on mosix clusters. The performance, I recall, was less than
stellar.
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