Pelican works with *any* linux app?

[slaphead99]

Hi- congratulations on a great live CD, I was up and running very quickly. I also like how easy-to-follow your tutorials are.

I've read the forum posts I still haven't seen the answer I'm really looking for and that is- will any app that runs fine on Pelican (on one machine) be parallelised when there are more nodes? Or is it just specialised applications (like Octave)?

I can't really see how this could work as I understand how difficult it is to write distributed applications but I am really hoping its true! :)

I'd love to parallelise a chess application and build a demonic chess-playing automaton :)

Many regards,

Chris.

[slaphead99]

Quite addition: I can compile on Pelican if that wil help :) (I tested by compiling your econometrics examples)

[Michael Creel]

It would be great if software could automatically run on a distributed environment, and I bet that this will be a normal feature in 10 years or so, but now it doesn't work that way - normal apps will run, but only using a single node of the cluster. To use all nodes, the apps must be specially written to do so, using MPI or some other parallelization scheme.