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I've deployed openmosix in several academic and industry environments. |
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It has worked very well in those cases, with efficient dynamic load |
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balancing and transparent process migration. |
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This is for the 2.4 kernel series, which is the stable release as of |
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yet. The tools work very well for that and the setups require very |
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little maintainance and have uptimes that are only limited by |
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hardware failures, machine relocations, and other such hassles of |
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divine nature. Although I have actually managed to hot swap machines |
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in running clusters, even servers on a few occasions. |
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I have not tried the 2.6 series yet, since I trust the developers when |
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they say it is not stable release yet. |
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If you can live with the 2.4 kernel series then openmosix is excellent |
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in a wide range of application environments. |
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Otherwise there are some other alternatives that I know of: |
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openmosix.org |
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kerrighed.org |
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openssi.eu |
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All have strengths and weaknesses. OpenMosix was the most suitable for |
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the use cases I've encountered |
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Harebrafolk |
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Jimmy Rosen |
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On Thursday 24 May 2007 14:45, Fernando Spencer wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I'm running Gentoo 2007 on 9 machines, 5 dual xeon 3.0Mhz and 4 |
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> dual PIII 1.4Mhz, with 6gb of ram. I installed an openmosix kernel |
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> (2.6.17), but I can't get openmosix tools working, they don't |
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> compile or don't work fine. I tried omuscd, but I get "No candidate |
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> process" |
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> Is there a way to distribute process around the boxes transparently |
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> using the network with gentoo? |
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> |
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> What softwares are you using ? |
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> |
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> Fernando |
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