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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. Think Lusers. by Soko · · Score: 5, Funny

    CHAOS is designed to provide dumb node power to a cluster

    Hell, my nodes are occupied by the dumb during the day, too. Have we found an actual productive use for lusers?

    Soko

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  2. Wow... by CleverNickedName · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a hackneyed cliché of these!

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    Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
  3. This is bound to help the cause... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Corporate Linux Fundamentalist 1: There's this new product that uses all our PC's overnight to harness their power for the greater good. It runs on Linux. It would be a good way for us to become more Linux friendly in the workplace.
    IT Director: Um, sure, OK, what's it called?
    Corporate Linux Fundamentalist: Um, Chaos?

    Could they not of thought of a better name, how about .Grid or something else Microsoftie, well at least it wasn't called KAy05

    1. Re:This is bound to help the cause... by ggvaidya · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's not Chaos, it's CHAOS!

      Nothing puts executives on edge like the word CHAOS in big, bold letters :p

  4. CHAOS: Groovy Name by AhaIndia · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We were just looking for a groovy name that would stick out in a world of groovy names,"


    Actually their first choice was "Mandriva" but somebody had recently taken that "groovy" name... Aahhh, just missed!



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  5. Quality by Indy+Media+Watch · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the press-release

    What is CHAOS - the supercomupter for your wallet?

    The most significant change to the project, as far as the open source community will be conerned, is the quality of the distribution

    As they are concerned about quality, any chance they could put all that unused computing power towards a Goddamned spell-checker?

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    Indy Media Watch-Proctologist of the Internet

  6. Re:Do I lose the use of my CD drive? by boron+boy · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's not that hard to do, even for lazy sysadmins
    I think you underestimate my degree of laziness.
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  7. Wow! by teddaman · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't know what you clicked on this time Dad, but this thing's not even running Windows now!

  8. Re:Useful? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I work at Taco Bell too, and I let the computer running at night so our anti-virus can prevent robbers from stealing it.

  9. Re:Do I lose the use of my CD drive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm so lazy I...

  10. Taco Bell?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh! I see is the biggest Telco of Mexico. isn't it?

  11. woof! by spurious+cowherd · · Score: 2, Funny
    Linux Distro turns PCs into Night-time Clusters

    Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "zombie process"

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  12. No thanks! by pandrijeczko · · Score: 3, Funny

    My company already runs Windows on desktops and there's more than enough "chaos" during the day without more needed during the night...

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    Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
  13. The well kept secret of office PC's worldwide by wootest · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slave to Microsoft Office by day, supercomputer with immense powers by night!