<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Pros of openMosix</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The openMosix HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="So what is openMosix Anyway ? " HREF="what.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="openMosix Test Drive" HREF="x223.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Cons of openMosix" HREF="x264.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The openMosix HOWTO: </TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x223.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 2. So what is openMosix Anyway ?</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x264.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN229" ></A >2.6. Pros of openMosix</H1 ><P ><DIV CLASS="TABLE" ><A NAME="AEN232" ></A ><P ><B >Table 2-1. Pros of openMosix</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><TBODY ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >No extra packages are required.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >No code changes to your application are required.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Simple to install/configure.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >On a Red-Hat based system/distro, installing openMosix is as simple as typing: # rpm -Uvh openMosix*.rpm</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >DSM is being released soon (late march 2003).</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Well integrated with openAFS.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Port to IA-64 as well as AMD-64 is underway.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >oMFS has been improved much since plain MFS.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >It is a clustering platform with more than 10 products based on it: openMosixView, openMosixWebView, openMosixApplet, RxLinux, PlumpOS, K12LTSP, LTSP and many others.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >openMosix is a product developed by the users themselves so it's more close to the user by definition.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Node autodiscovery/fail-over daemon already implemented in the user land tools via multicast messaging.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Aliases for hosts with multiple interfaces.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Basic routing available (in the rare case where true multicast routing is undesirable).</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" >Cluster Mask allows to specify to which nodes a given process can migrate.</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ></DIV ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x223.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x264.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >openMosix Test Drive</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="what.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Cons of openMosix</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >