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Very interesting. ARM support, resolutions and lack of current development might be an issue. But very cool project!

One thought though; it's not just about remoting the apps from a single nodes and viewing them on displays connected to the other nodes. We actually want to spread the computational load also and leverage all the nodes properly. I guess one could do both things; have the control node use Xdmx and then still employ the load balancer to run tasks on different nodes but have them redirected back to the master. When they show up they could be moved around the large virtual desktop, but they would not be using the control node's CPU. Hmmm....

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What you really need is hot code migration to another machine while the app is running (provided you don't want to kill it) - as much as awesome would that be - I think this is available only in the very high-end cluster solutions/mainframes...

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Or VMotion... and by the way, XenServer is being ported to ARM with Pandaboard support. Don't know ETA though.

Xen's xm migrate would do it too. But now we're getting into issues of hypervisor overhead on a relatively modest processor...

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That's not what you want. What you want is transparent UNIX process migration from one host to another. It's been done on commodity workstations*, but (so far as I know) only on research operating systems. Though MOSIX might've had something like this, which I guess goes back to the cluster comment...


* Just a handy way to refer to "pizza box" workstations like the early SPARCstations, MIPS DECstations, etc.

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Very impressive!, and I like it a lot!
You know that some people heres bites his lips to keep from screaming, "-Build it in series!"

Performance looks very well. Is that an Inventor View session, for the hypercube 3D logo? Any chance to look at it doing anything 2D/3D CAD related? What kind of apps are readily built for ARM? Are Ubuntu's repos same of standard for the ARM platform than for AMD64 and i386? (Sorry, never tried anything ARM related at all.)

If you happen to run short of ideas at any rate , I would suggest something like Blender, FreeCAD, or even AOI (Art Of Illusion), K3D, Misfit, etc. doing some interactive modelling!

So, summarizing, looks wonderful!

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That SGI logo was a video, but I will be running CAD sw and doing another video with a lot more software demos and also views of the case from different angles etc.

Actually Ubuntu support for ARM is pretty darn good and there are a ton of apps available for it. The best part is that the Ubuntu software repository works, so you can simply browse for apps appstore style and double click to install most of them. For stuff in the Canonical sw repository, there's no need to build or cross compile or anything painful like that.




I'll see what CAD sw I can find and will run it to verify.



That means a lot! Thank you!

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I used SDcreate to make this image, and used the files from the zip that should work with PandaBoard ES. I can not make claims it works though, as have no way to test myself.

Edit: removed as did not work either...

Very nice, have a good week end!
All the best,
Diego

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Sadly, this did not work either. I think I am giving up on RiscOS.

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