openmosix clusterin

[Lucas Vogelsang]

Hi,

I looked at open mosix as well, but dropped it for several reasons:

1. It is not accepted by the official linux kernel tree. ->no inclusion 
into (ed)ubuntu -> no easy installation
2. They lack of a good 2.6 Kernel Support.
3.  For me it wasn't worth, trying something out, ubuntu will never 
include.

It's too bad, that they are not accepted by mainline. I know someone who 
as really successful with openmosix. He modified the openmosix livecd 
and added LTSP.

But the edubuntu tean is aware of it and will certainly try to include 
distributed computing features.
Edgy Eft, the new release of edubuntu, will already have a swapserver 
that let's you share swap over the network.

regards, Lucas

Lucas Vogelsang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I looked at open mosix as well, but dropped it for several reasons:
>
> 1. It is not accepted by the official linux kernel tree. ->no 
> inclusion into (ed)ubuntu -> no easy installation
> 2. They lack of a good 2.6 Kernel Support.
> 3.  For me it wasn't worth, trying something out, ubuntu will never 
> include.
>
> It's too bad, that they are not accepted by mainline. I know someone 
> who as really successful with openmosix. He modified the openmosix 
> livecd and added LTSP.
>
> But the edubuntu tean is aware of it and will certainly try to include 
> distributed computing features.
> Edgy Eft, the new release of edubuntu, will already have a swapserver 
> that let's you share swap over the network.
>
> regards, Lucas
>
> James Call wrote:
>> I have a question that may show my ignorance.
>>
>> I was just browsing around this weekend and I ran across openmosix (
>> http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ ). As I understand it, this is
>> basically clustering software, that spreads the cpu usage across the
>> network.  I even found a few things on the internet about LTSP and
>> openmosix.
>>
>> Here is the question:
>> Wouldn't it make sense to make edubuntu run on this type of a system?
>> It seems that in theory, the server could be anything with a bunch of
>> memory and the terminals would provide all the processing power.  That
>> means that when Billy is looking at a web page (super low cpu) Susy
>> could be making an object in Blender (very high cpu).  It seems that
>> in a lot of developing countries (read Mexico) you could use all these
>> old P3s to make some super sweet clusters.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with this? Is it worth getting involved 
>> with?
>>
>> Thanks, James
>>
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