OPENMOSIX

'openMosix' is a free cluster management system that provides single-system image (SSI) capabilities, e.g. automatic work distribution among nodes. It allows program processes (not threads) to migrate to machines in the node's network that would be able to run that process faster (process migration). It is particularly useful for running parallel and intensive input/output (I/O) applications. It is released as a Linux kernel patch, but is also available on specialized LiveCDs and as a Gentoo Linux kernel choice. 'Note': OpenMosix was removed from Gentoo portage on Feb 18, 2007. It was cited as "not being maintained".
openMosix is currently considered stable on 2.4 kernel for the x86 architecture.
Support for 64-bit AMD64 architecture only starts with the 2.6 version.
openMosix currently works with the Linux 2.4 kernel. The porting to Linux 2.6 kernel is still under development.
It was forked from MOSIX by Moshe Bar on February 10, 2002 when MOSIX became proprietary software.
On July 15, 2007, Bar announced that the openMOSIX project will reach its end of life on March 1, 2008, due to the decreasing need for SSI clustering as low-cost multi-core processors increase in availability.^[1]

Contents

LiveCDs

References

External links

openMosix Cluster sites

LiveCDs

GNU/Linux LiveCDs with openMosix include:

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★ clusterKnoppix

★ Quantian (based on clusterKnoppix)- A scientific distribution.

★ PlumpOS

★ CHAOS (a very small boot CD)

★ mediainlinux

References

1. openMosix Project End of Life Announcement

External links

★ Official homepage

★ Official Wiki

★ PlumpOS website

★ coMosix (project that aims to make openMosix run on Microsoft Windows)

openMosix Cluster sites

★ Cluster at National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv

★ Hydra

★ Hugo Cluster

★ MBG Cluster