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This is a pretty interesting find.
openMosix
openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering. This kernel extension turns a network of ordinary computers into a supercomputer for Linux applications.
Once you have installed openMosix, the nodes in the cluster start talking to one another and the cluster adapts itself to the workload. Processes originating from any one node, if that node is too busy compared to others, can migrate to any other node. openMosix continuously attempts to optimize the resource allocation.
How neat is that? Networked computers sharing resources, sharing the workload. Say there are a few computers on a network, one is dying under the pressure of a million processes and another is sitting there doing nothing. Why shouldn’t these two computers share their workload?
Now right off the bat you can see a million uses for this. Got a few old pc’s? Get openMosix on them and get great performance out of one when the other’s aren’t being used. Ever notice that school pc’s always suck? Throw openMosix on them. And ofcourse the bigger the scale, the better it works! Imagine an entire campus running this.
So check it out.
http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/
If our IT education at school wasn’t so windows based this would be awsome…. sigh…
