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.