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Linux Distro turns PCs into Night-time Clusters

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the imagine-an-ah-you-know-the-rest dept.

renai42 writes "An Australian security firm is about to launch a clustered Linux distribution based on openMosix that aims to utilise the unused nightly processing power of corporate desktops. Dubbed CHAOS, the distro is able to remotely boot a computer and run it on Linux without affecting the local hard disk. CHAOS is designed to provide dumb node power to a cluster run by existing full-featured clustering distributions such as Quantian and ClusterKnoppix."

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  1. Go DownUnder! by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    An innovation from DownUnder! Are there any other innovations from the Aussies to speak of? I must admit I never took them that serious before. This changes my mind for sure.