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RE: NSLU2 Cluster



> Back in the day I used to use OpenMOSIX for this sort of thing, but that
> died years ago. The replacements seem to be LinuxPMI, Kerrighed or
> OpenSSI. They also haven't shown any life for years and probably don't
> work on ARM anyway. FWIW, here are the installation instructions for
> OpenSSI on Debian:
>
> http://openssi.org/cgi-bin/view?page=docs2/1.9/debian/INSTALL.html
>
> These are all SSI clusters, where the whole cluster behaves as if it's
> one big computer and processes migrate seamless from machine to machine.
> They're rather out of fashion these days, the emphasis being on the
> other kind of cluster where each machine is largely independent and the
> applications explicitly run work units on different CPUs. But I have
> absolutely no experience with those whatsoever, not even extending to
> knowing what they're called.
>
> I still miss OpenMOSIX...
>

Funnily enough I looked at OpenMOSIX but they shut down in 2008 I think and there's only support for 2.4 kernel.

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