Re: distributed shared memory / mmap

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Mark Hounschell wrote:

> Martin Uecker wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Is there any easy way to get shared memory between to
>> processes on different machines? It seems possible using mmap
>> on a file system like GFS on top of a distributed block device.
>>
>>
>
> There is hardware available, designed just for this. Reflective Memory
> pci cards.
>
> Mark
> --

Check out "Fabric." There is even an InfiniBand driver in the
kernel. Fabric attached memory is used for HPC (High Performance
Computing). It's been around for a couple of years and is fairly
mature.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (4785.87 BogoMips).
My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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