Securely renting out your CPU with Linux

Posted Jan 27, 2005 13:10 UTC (Thu) by davecb (subscriber, #1574)
Parent article: Securely renting out your CPU with Linux

An excellent idea for a department full of fat clients:
instead of letting them sit idle when there is work to
be done, let them contribute to it.

Natural extensions to this might include
- find-grained capabilities, and a command to
set a selected subset of them
- a fair-share scheduler, or at least one with
a "use CPU only when no other process wants
it" scheduling class.

--dave

Securely renting out your CPU with Linux

Posted Jan 27, 2005 21:13 UTC (Thu) by popinet (guest, #5248) [Link]

It already exists: it's called openmosix.

And it works too...

cheers

Stephane