OpenMosix
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- The correct title of this article is openMosix. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
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 64bit AMD64 architecture only starts with the 2.6 version.
openMosix currently works with the Linux 2.4 kernel and the Linux 2.6 kernel (but the userland tools are still under development for the 2.6 kernel).
It was forked from MOSIX by Moshe Bar on February 10, 2002 when MOSIX became proprietary software.
[edit] LiveCDs
GNU/Linux LiveCDs with openMosix include:
- dyne:bolic
- clusterKnoppix
- Quantian (based on clusterKnoppix)- A scientific distribution.
- PlumpOS
- CHAOS (a very small boot CD)
- mediainlinux
[edit] External links
- Official homepage
- Official Wiki
- PlumpOS website
- coMosix (project that aims to make openMosix run on Microsoft Windows)
