LabVIEW on Mosix cluster

[Deniss Karai]

Hello,

have anyone experience with running LabVIEW on Mosix
(http://www.mosix.org/) cluster?

Is it possible?

Deniss Karai
deniss@cb.ttu.ee

[Anonymous]

In article <3e775f46$0$158$bb624dac@diablo.uninet.ee>, "Deniss Karai"
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> have anyone experience with running LabVIEW on Mosix
> (http://www.mosix.org/) cluster?
>
> Is it possible?
>
> Deniss Karai
> deniss@cb.ttu.ee
>
>
>
Hi Deniss,

Wow, that would be cool. Good question.

Look at Question #19 in the Mosix FAQ. It says that multithreaded apps
(like LabVIEW) may have little benefit from Mosix unless the app is
cluster-aware. It looks like you may be restricted to the more expensive
SMP system. I don't know much about this stuff though.

-Kevin

[David Duffey]

Hi Deniss,

This is VERY interesting to me. I have setup several Beowulf clusters (including one mosix cluster) and have written a process dump / restore module for Linux.

Although I haven't done it, I can say with a certainty that LabVIEW will work with mosix, but you probably won't see any benefit except for memory usage (just like any other program).

BUT! You could program LabVIEW is such a way that it could become VERY useful on a mosix cluster. You could run several copies of LabVIEW, each running a small set of related VIs (or just one VI) and using VI server to execute each "remote process" VI. Each process of LabVIEW would be free to roam the network.

You can download an evaluation version of LabVIEW by this clickstream:

ni.com -> Produc
ts -> LabVIEW -> Resources (Evaluation Software)

And although it says "for windows," when you get to the part were you fill out your information, you will be able to select "Linux."

The evaluation software is an older version of LabVIEW (6.0.1) so keep that in mind when you use it. It should give you a pretty good idea how it runs on a distributed network like mosix.

Please keep me informed of your LabVIEW on mosix progress, this is an area of computing that LabVIEW has great potential for!