Re: Remote fork() and Parallel Programming
Chris Wedgwood (chris@cybernet.co.nz)
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 15:17:40 +1200
> > (2) Sometimes the power goes out or people need to twiddle with stuff
>
> You can copy a process to another computer without killing the current one,
> and let that copied process stay there. Just restart this copy when needed.
>
> > (3) You need to play Quake2 and want to restart the process(es) later
>
> Migrate the process to another node, and let it _run_ while playing Quake2
> (Civilization 2 is much better :-)
>
> > (4) You want to add more disk/ram half way through doing something kewl
>
> The same as case number 3.
With checkpoint I can do all of these - on a UP box without any concept of
process migration.
To me, it seems simpler, and more flexible.
-Chris
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