Monday, April 11, 2005

CHAOS - Everybody's Computer Cluster?

Even after being the butt of a lot of jokes over my experiment with clustering 486s, I'm interested in the concept(s) involved. Here's one effort I'm following.

Pure Hacking, an Australian security firm, has created a version of open Mosix which overcomes that system's security problems and has the capability to turn an unused PC into a node of a computing cluster running Linux. The distribution itself is 6 MB and the nodes of the cluster are booted and commanded remotely by a master computer. (It doesn't matter which operating system is installed on the machine for it's "regular" usage and the contents of the hard drive aren't ever touched by CHAOS.)

Check it out.

Jack

1 comment:

  1. courtesy of flylady.net
    CHAOS means "Can't have anybody over syndrome" lol

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