OpensMosix is simply fantastic. Kind of thing that could came in MDK distribution, perhaps in future.
Imagine your computer with multiprocessors, doing tar/backup, video encoding, playing game etc. all the same time. Or many computational simulations (as you do here at University) distributed automagically over the private net. The grid concept is a little bit further. Cheers, On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Jim C wrote: > > > > > >Olaf, > > > > If I'm understanding you right then, OpenMosix is a kind of Grid > >Computing for Linux? > > > > > It's been a while since I messed with OpenMOSIX. > OpenMOSIX is basically just a kernel patch and subsequent setup of a > config file here or there. The kernels at the site are RedHat kernels > but I've never had any trouble with them. > > I was able to install and get it working but I was never able to > understand what good it was doing. Even if I set the process migration > threshold (i.e. the percentage of CPU load at which new process would be > started on other systems instead of locally) I was unable to discern any > noticeable changes in performance. > > > >
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