openMosix Is Shutting Down

jd writes "Despite having one of the largest user-bases of any clustering system for Linux, openMosix is to be shut down. Top developers have left and they lack the means or motivation to continue. Their official claim of multicore CPUs making clustering redundant is somewhere between highly improbable and totally absurd, as has been pointed out elsewhere. Why is this shutdown so important? Well, from a technical standpoint, the open-source bproc (the Beowulf process migration module) is ancient, MOSIX is very hard to obtain unless you're a student, and kerrighd is (as yet) immature. From a user standpoint, openMosix is the mainstay of the Open Source clustering world and has by far the best management tools of any. The ability of this project to continue will likely have a major impact on the future of Open Source in the high-end markets — if the best of the best couldn't survive, people will be more careful about anything less."

Comments

Huh?

[wilymage]

"[T]he open-source world progresses with giant steps. It is a world where the sun never sets and where national borders, race and religion have no meaning. What counts is the code. And that comes abundantly, and in high quality." (attributed to Moshe Bar on his site)

Apparently the code doesn't count, only spurious logic about changing hardware factors. Oh, and apparently the sun does, in fact, set.

But how cool a name is Moshe Bar?

Re:I for one

[Anonymous Coward]

Just imagine a beowulf clus... Oh never mind.

Imagine a

[Tablizer]

and they lack the means or motivation to continue

See what happens when you *stop* imagining a Beowulf Cluster?

Re:OpenSSI

[Bazman]

We have an openMosix cluster of ten nodes. Our users can log into any one of them, start a long-running job, and the cluster does its job of balancing and migrating jobs to the best node.

'fork-and-forget' in this context means our forking users forget which node they started the job on...

Re:I for one

[schweinhund]

In Soviet Russia, MOSIX Opens You!