A Fast Start For openMosix

axehind writes "Dr. Moshe Bar recently announced the creation of openMosix, a new OpenSource project. The project has quickly attracted a team of volunteers developers from around the globe and is off to a very fast start. openMosix, is an extension of the Linux kernel. openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering. openMosix is perfectly scalable and adaptive. Once you have installed openMosix, the nodes in the cluster start talking to one another and the cluster adapts itself to the workload. "

Sounds like an advertisment to me.

[jellomizer]

Almost 5% of the text is the word openMosix. Is it more or did that post sound like an advertisment to recrute Open Source Developers. Now I am going to read the article.

This + Linux Terminal Servers = Cool

[Brento]

There's already a mini-howto [sourceforge.net] explaining how to set this up in combination with a Linux Terminal Server. Basically, you end up with a bunch of workstations that actually relieve the server from CPU load. Odd to think that the more diskless workstations you add to your network, the faster it becomes!

Great for older hardware

[nakhla]

This seems like a great technology for an enterprise to take advantage of older hardware. Upgrading your company's desktop PCs? Take the older ones and plug them into your openMosix cluster. If I recall correctly, processes can automatically migrate from node to node based on system load. I know my old had a Unix cluster for all of the CS students to use. It would get seriously bogged down at times, especially around finals. It'd be nice to have something like this which is able to take advantage of older hardware. There were times when a simple 'ls' would take 30 seconds to complete. Certainly this is something that an old 486 node could take care of. [umbc.edu]

Does MOSIX handle open socket migration yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

Migrating live processes between boxes with open sockets is the last big obstacle to OpenMOSIX being used in large web farms, as far as I know. It seems that OpenMOSIX is geared more to scientific computation problems with IO only at the beginning or end of the batch job. If a MOSIX process has a lot of I/O, it stays on the same box and is never migrated.