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OpenMosix

Posted by Hemos on from the mosixing-the-night-away dept.

Francesco Taurino writes "Moshe Bar has released a new Mosix system: openMosix. From the site: "For thousands of users Mosix has been a reliable, fast and cost efficient clustering platform. There are hundreds of Mosix installations in life sciences, finance, industry, high tech, research and government environments. The goal of openMosix is to give to these users a continued support and an up-to-date platform. openMosix is initially fully compatible with the last Mosix (1.5.2 for 2.4.13) kernel, but is now growing in its own direction. If you would like to contribute to the openMosix project, drop a line to moshe@openmosix.org.""

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  1. Re:AFAICT Mosix is completely worthless by Halo5 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You miss the whole point of MOSIX. At our Center, we use it to manage the execution of MANY jobs across the cluster. If it is not beneficial to do so, the job won't migrate. This is an entirely different type of cluster than MPI or PVM with a different goal in mind (and consequently, different pros/cons). In our case, MOSIX is a better solution because it doesn't require domain decomposition.


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  2. Aptly named by gutigre · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Moshe Bar has released a new Mosix system: openMosix.

    The word "bar" is Hebrew for "free"... Free as in speech, not beer, believe it or not!