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Re:Why the data center needs an operating system by nwilkens on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @02:05PM (#8695684)
In 2005 I saw a demo of this product from VirtualIron called VFe, which did this on a smaller scale (maybe 10 servers) -- it looked amazing.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2005/ols2005v2-pages-243-258....

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Re:Why the data center needs an operating system by wmf on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @02:48PM (#8695929)
Mosix, Virtual Iron, vNUMA, ScaleMP, etc. are variants of the RPC fallacy: making remote/slow/independent things pretend to be local/fast/fate-shared. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~waldo/Readings/waldo-94.pdf Successful distributed software tends to go the opposite direction, making asynchrony and unreliability the base case.
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