[DotGNU]MOSIX as WOS

[David Nicol]

Norbert Bollow wrote:

> [I]t is now important to go forward at full speed
> with the development of our [...] "Distributed
> Execution Environment", or WOS ("Web Operating System") as I now
> prefer to call it, [which has been] part of the DotGNU vision
> right from the beginning. Some members of the DotGNU Steering
> Committee think that it's "outside the scope of DotGNU".  From my
> perspective, the important question is not whether the Free
> Software WOS is built within DotGNU or through a separate
> coordinating project, the important thing is that we now go ahead
> with it.  


Using the MOSIX patches to the linux kernel (www.mosix.org) it
is possible for several friends who use the same road-runner POS,
for instance, to arrange their machines in a peer-to-peer load
balancing configuration.

A central DotGUN MOSIX configuration server could be set up by
anyone (with a fat pipe and the willingness to use it -- perhaps
some grad student at an I2 school will read this and be inspired?)

the glue to arrange node log-ins and notifications of updated configuration
files is relatively trivial, as such things go.  I am working on
such glue for use internally at my university and when it is ready
to go I will share it.





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