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Re:OpenSSI is an open-source single-system image clustering ... by mlyle on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:15PM (#21085038)
This. I'm really bummed that so many of these things-- OpenMosix, OpenSSI, Kerrighed, etc, have died.

There's a lot of utility in stitching together many systems into one-- a middle ground between loosely coupled application-controlled distributed concurrency and tightly coupled SMP/NUMA.

Like if you want a big multiuser build farm, for instance, where you're not drowning in IPC and synchronization, but not everything maps well to distcc.

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Re:OpenSSI is an open-source single-system image clustering ... by gnufx on Friday September 27, 2019 @07:45AM (#21090786)
For what it's worth, ScaleMP will still sell you something more-or-less like that, at least for HPC systems, but I've never used it, and it seemed to have significant restrictions. There's also still (proprietary) bproc: https://www.penguincomputing.com/documentation/scyld-cluster...
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