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<TITLE>Pros of openMosix</TITLE>
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<table><title>Pros of openMosix</title>
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<tgroup cols='1' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
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<tbody>
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<row><entry>No extra packages are required.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>No code changes to your application are
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required.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>Simple to install/configure.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>On a Red-Hat based system/distro, installing openMosix
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is as simple as typing: # rpm -Uvh openMosix*.rpm</entry></row>
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<row><entry>DSM is being released soon (late march
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2003).</entry></row>
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<row><entry>Port to IA-64 as well as AMD-64 is
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underway.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>It is a clustering platform with more than 10 products
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based on it: openMosixView, openMosixWebView, openMosixApplet,
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RxLinux, PlumpOS, K12LTSP, LTSP and many others.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>openMosix is a product developed by the users themselves
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so it's more close to the user by definition.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>Node autodiscovery/fail-over daemon already implemented
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in the user land tools via multicast messaging.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>Aliases for hosts with multiple
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interfaces.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>Basic routing available (in the rare case where true
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multicast routing is undesirable).</entry></row>
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<row><entry>Cluster Mask allows to specify to which nodes
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a given process can migrate.</entry></row>
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</tbody>
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</tgroup>
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</table>
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</PARA>
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<TITLE>Cons of openMosix</TITLE>
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<PARA>
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<table><title>Cons of openMosix</title>
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<tgroup cols='1' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'>
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<tbody>
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<row><entry>Kernel dependent.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>Shared memory issues (an alpha release of DSM should be
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available as of late march 2003).</entry></row>
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<row><entry>There are issues with Multiple Threads not gaining
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performance.</entry></row>
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<row><entry>You won't gain performance when running one single process
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such as your web browser on an openMosix Cluster: the process won't
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spread itself over the cluster. Except of course your process will
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migrate to a more performant machine.</entry></row>
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</tbody>
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</tgroup>
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</table>
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</PARA>
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</CHAPTER>
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