Tag: Clustering
openMosix supercomputing project closes.
by The Uni-Hacker on Apr.14, 2008, under Misc
The open source clustering project, openMosix, has officially closed down. openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering which turns a network of ordinary computers into a supercomputer. The software was a spin off of the commercially available MOSIX. The close was probably due to lack of interest or lack of programmers supporting the project. OpenSSI seems to be the openMosix alternative.
The openMosix clustering software let you run a cheap super computer, letting general applications use CPU cycles from other computer connected to the cluster. If your main cluster node’s CPU was busy, it would forward other threads to a computer on the cluster network.
The software is still available here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmosix/
