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Re: postgres on a beowulf? (AMD)opteron?

scott.marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>

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From: "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
To: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
Cc: PgSQL Performance ML <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-05-21T15:45:50Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
On 21 May 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 06:27, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:28:32PM -0400, george young wrote:
> > > Has anyone run postgres on a beowulf system? 
> > 
> > Can't be done.  None of the cluster systems support cross-machne
> > shared memory (this is actually a problem for Postgres and NUMA, as
> > well, BTW).
> 
> VMSclusters and Tru64 clusters do, but, of course, it has to be
> programmed for.
> 
> And the licensing costs are pretty steep...

someone was on the list last year and had gotten postgresql (sorta) 
working on mosix clusters.  The performance, I recall, was less than 
stellar.