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Being distributed operating system can I build a RPi cluster with just plan9 installed for distributed computing tasks?
by Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
Being distributed operating system can I build a RPi cluster with just plan9 installed for distributed computing tasks?
- MisterTea 6y agoYes. You can boot the entire cluster from a single file server running on any other plan 9 machine be it pi, pc, VM, whatever. Each node boots from the same root file system so each node has the same fs view. This is where ndb[1] comes in Though you can change this any way you see fit. Network booting can be accomplished via pxe or a plan 9 kernel on sd with a plan9.ini configured to automatically pull root via tls or tcp. have a look at thread(2)[2] and enjoy Go like channels and concurrency cleanly built on top of the nice pan 9 c library. You could just use Go but we dont have Go on pi yet, that's a google SOC 2021 project if anyone is interested. 1. http://man.postnix.pw/plan_9/6/ndb http://man.postnix.pw/plan_9/6/ndb 2. http://man.postnix.pw/plan_9/2/thread http://man.postnix.pw/plan_9/2/thread
- Abishek_Muthian 6y agoThank you, looks very promising. I will definitely try it out when I get the distributed computing itch again.