A Fast Start For openMosix

axehind writes "Dr. Moshe Bar recently announced the creation of openMosix, a new OpenSource project. The project has quickly attracted a team of volunteers developers from around the globe and is off to a very fast start. openMosix, is an extension of the Linux kernel. openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering. openMosix is perfectly scalable and adaptive. Once you have installed openMosix, the nodes in the cluster start talking to one another and the cluster adapts itself to the workload. "

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The use of "it"

[FortKnox]

openMosix, is an extension of the Linux kernel. openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering. openMosix is perfectly scalable and adaptive. Once you have installed openMosix,

I think you can safely use "it" for all but the first "openMosix" in the article.

Otherwise it looks like a bad advertisement (try saying it aloud)...

Hype?

[Raskolnk]

openMosix is perfectly scalable and adaptive

Nothing like a 'perfectly' statement to discredit a story.

Re:Hype?

[You're All Wrong]

Oooh, you cynic.

Maybe interpret it as "as perfectly as can be done with existing (read common, cheap) technology" instead.

Sure, we know Amdahl's law is pretty much like the laws of thermodynamics (the best you can do is break even, and you can't even break even).
However, unless you are talking about high-budget professional solutions (e.g. Cray, HP Superdomes, most big shit fom Sun, other highly integrated solutions with custom inter-processor/memory communications), you're always going to take this hit, and openMosix has no reason to be worse than other simple solutions. And if it can reach a state where there seems to be no performance improvement without throwing hardware at it, then surely it could be said to have reached perfection? However, that's a lot of "if"s, and is all pie in the sky at the moment; whether it achieves this 'perfection' target remains to be seen.

YAWAIW.

Re:Mosix

[Scarpux]

Yes, It is a fork. If you look at the project page, you'll see that openMosix split from Mosix because Dr Barak wanted to move from the GPL to a proprietary license. Moshe Bar, who worked with Barak on Mosix, took the GPL code and created the openMosix project. I read an interview awhile back with Moshe Bar, but I can't seem to locate it.

Re:Does MOSIX handle open socket migration yet?

[ameoba]

Web servers are generally regarded as I/O-bound applications. What's the point in running an environment where you already have more than enough CPU power?