Does Fortress support multi-node environments such as clusters and grids, and if so, does it support each node as a separate processing unit?
Fortress was designed with the goal of eventually executing a single program on multiple nodes (such as a cluster or grid), but that support is not presently being developed by the team at Sun. Fortress will generally view each node not as a single processing unit, but as a Region encompassing multiple processing units (the multiple cores on any modern CPU). Our hope is that the Fortress model of computation and load balancing is sufficient not only to run programs on multiple physical machines, but also to permit the resources available to the program to vary dynamically over time.
