> For my needs, I want to run "usual" software, specifically R, the statistics > language. Utlimately, I want to bind several physical hosts together to > appear as one host on OS level, such that e.g. htop would show the total > number of cores accross all bound boxes. There are often optimized distributed solutions for specific tasks. So if your goal is to run R across multiple machines, check out something like http://www.distributedr.org Chris -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3
