9 Feb
2016
9 Feb
'16
8:23 a.m.
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:13:28 +0100 Wolfgang Mader <Wolfgang_Mader@brain-frog.de> wrote:
[snip] For my needs, I want to run "usual" software, specifically R, the statistics language. Utlimately, I want to bind several physical hosts together to appear as one host on OS level, such that e.g. htop would show the total number of cores accross all bound boxes.
What you're describing is a classic clustering environment, like a Beowulf cluster. Look into something like LinuxPMI/OpenMosix. It'll never be as smooth as "a single OS on a single logical host across multiple machines", but it's as close as you'll get. ~Celti