Open Mosix project killed off

Moshe Bar, Open Mosix founder and project leader, has called time on the project saying that increasing power and availability of low cost multi-core processors is making single-system image (SSI) Clustering redundant.

In a statement he said that the direction of computing is clear and key developers are moving into newer virtualisation approaches and other projects.

Bar is pleased with the way the project has gone with tens of thousands of installations and many projects that have incorporated Open Mosix into their own products.

The software's Auto-Discovery idea enabled the development of Instant SSI Clusters and taught systems makers important lessons in Distributed Shared Memory.

According to Sourge Forge, the software will remain on its site indefinitely, frozen as of March 1st, 2008 and the the openMosix website will remain open until March 1st, 2008. The openMosix-Devel List will be killed off by December 1, 2007.

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