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Mosix now GPLed

Posted by Hemos on from the open-to-the-world dept.

Az0th writes "Prof. Amnon Barak posted today to the Mosix list an announcement that the Mosix distribution is now under GPL. See the story for details. "

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  1. What is it? by Omar+Djabji · · Score: 5

    What is Mosix, you ask? From their web page:


    MOSIX is a software tool for supporting cluster computing. The core of MOSIX are
    kernel-level, adaptive load-balancing and memory ushering algorithms that are geared
    for maximal performance, overhead-free scalability and ease-of-use of a scalable
    computing cluster. These algorithms are designed to respond to variations in the
    resource usage among the nodes by migrating processes from one node to another,
    preemptively and transparently. MOSIX provides some SMP/NUMA functionalities in
    order to allow a cluster of PCs (workstations and servers) to work cooperatively as if
    part of a single system.