From: niall@cuc.ucc.ie (Niall Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Transparent Parallel Machine?
Date: 30 May 1999 23:53:52 GMT
Organization: University College Cork, Ireland
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: Does anyone know of a UNIX (specifically Linux/FreeBSD or open source)
: daemon or distribution that will enable a transparent networked
: parallel machine?  This means that the kernel decides which machine to
: run new processes/threads on, and (hopefully) load balances
: appropriately. 
: It would most liklely be running on a 10/100MBps ethernet network.
: All the machines would be PCs.

I'd suggest you take a look at running a combination of Linux and
Mosix. 

Mosix supports cluster computing, with kernel level adaptive load
balancing. 

Sounds like exactly what you want I think.

Hope this helps,
Niall

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