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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. Seriously?? by Spudley · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are they serious? They expect corporation to agree to allow their PCs to be booted remotely and used for a task outside their control, and which doesn't make them any money.

    I honestly can't see anyone willingly agreeing to install it.

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  2. Re:Useful? by seminumerical · · Score: 0, Troll

    Computers switch to power saving mode when not in use. EPA regulations.

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