02-10-2005
Yes, if the universe does indeed end in "a big crunch" (as some theory suggests), there will be surely be "desire" to escape certain death - but that scenario is so long into the future that humans, as we know and understand them, will have long ceased to exist...
For example, if you examine the world via the eyes of information theory (entropy and the third law of thermodynamics) and the fact that the universe is becoming "more organized," and the accepted fact that in the not-do-distant future that machines will have much greater cognitive abilities that human brains -- the need for "biological bodies" may be less important, and one could venture to say; and then all the "accumulated knowledge" could be "pushed" (sent, mailed, shot, passed, etc.) into "passages" to other universes, if there are indeed more than one and a way to go between them.
There is so much transfomation of "life" that we can only speculate, out of total ignorance, what "life" will be like 10 billion years. "Life" could simply be energy traveling in the universe..... and the need and desire to "live" may not exist, as we know it today in our current biological, carbon based, housing for our minds.
In all honesty, I have no idea......
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
lamgrow
LAMGROW(1) LAM COMMANDS LAMGROW(1)
NAME
lamgrow - Extend a LAM multicomputer.
SYNOPSIS
lamgrow [-hvd] [-cpu num] [-n nodeid] [-no-schedule] [-ssi key value] hostname
OPTIONS
-cpu num Indicate how many CPUs are available to LAM on the new node.
-d Turn on debugging output. This implies -v.
-h Print useful information on this command.
-n nodeid Assign this ID to the new node.
-no-schedule Indicate that C and N expansion in mpirun and lamexec should not schedule on this node.
-ssi key value
Send arguments to various SSI modules. See the "SSI" section, below.
-v Be verbose.
hostname Extend LAM with this host.
DESCRIPTION
An existing LAM universe, initiated by lamboot(1), can be enlarged to include more nodes with lamgrow. One new node is added for each in-
vocation. At a minimum, the host name that will run the new node is given on the command line. If a different userid is required to ac-
cess the host, it is specified with the appropriate boot SSI options (see lamssi_boot(7)).
The new node can be assigned any unused, non-negative identifier. If no identifier is specified, the highest node identifier in the cur-
rent LAM universe plus one is used. Note that lamboot(1) always assigns node identifiers consecutively from 0.
lamgrow can be run from any node in the current LAM universe. Specifically -- it cannot be run from the intended new host. Two invoca-
tions of lamgrow should not run concurrently, and the command attempts to detect this situation. The name of the host specified in lamgrow
should not be the one which is already present in the user's LAM universe and the command attempts to detect this situation too.
Resource managers will be the most common user of lamgrow. When hosts become idle and a user has expressed a desire to the manager that
extra cycles should be exploited, the manager could invoke lamgrow and then launch the specified application process(es) on the new node.
EXAMPLES
lamgrow -v newhost
Start LAM on newhost and add it to the existing LAM universe. Choose the next available node identifier and report about important
steps as they are done.
lamgrow -n 30 newhost
Start LAM on newhost with node ID 30 and add it to the existing LAM universe. Operate silently.
FILES
laminstalldir/etc/lam-conf.lamd default configuration file for LAM nodes, where "laminstalldir" is the directory where LAM/MPI was in-
stalled.
BUGS
It is not currently possible to specify a configuration file other than lam-conf.lamd on the remote node, even though this is possible with
lamboot.
SEE ALSO
lamboot(1), lamhalt(1), hboot(1), lamwipe(1), tkill(1), bhost(5), conf(5), lamssi_boot(7)
LAM 7.1.4 July, 2007 LAMGROW(1)