[Beowulf] openmosix-kernel-2.6

Nicolas Vigier nvigier at mandriva.com
Thu Aug 16 02:16:13 PDT 2007


On Wed, 08 Aug 2007, Chris Samuel wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, A Lenzo wrote:
> 
> > I am installing OpenMosix right now, and found that the kernel for
> > 2.6 is in beta.  But this beta was released in late 2006 and I
> > don't see anything newer. 
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=715406
> 
> # Moshe Bar, openMosix founder and project leader, has announced plans
> # to end the openMosix Project effective March 1, 2008.   
> [...]
> # openMosix source will remain on SourceForge indefinitely, frozen as
> # of March 1st, 2008. The openMosix website will remain open until
> # March 1st, 2008 and the openMosix-Devel List will close as of
> # December 1, 2007.    
> 
> It's probably time to start looking somewhere else, maybe start 
> porting your codes to distributed memory models like MPI.

Kerrighed could be an alternative :
http://www.kerrighed.org/

I think it is not really ready for production yet, but it is being
actively developed.

regards,
Nicolas




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