Clustering the parrot VM?

iCameHere has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Terracottatech(OSS) and IBM have been able to cluster the JVM itself between multiple computers for fault tolerance and scalability for standard java apps.

Does anyone know enough about parrot internals to know if something like the parrot VM would be clusterable in the same way?

It would be pretty awesome.

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Re: Clustering the parrot VM? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 30, 2008 at 18:59 UTC
It depends on where the boundaries between machines and JVMs are, and how they communicate. If it's through message passing (and not RPC calls or serialized objects), Parrot should be able to do the same, keeping in mind that communication latency is almost always a bottleneck.	[reply]

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