openMosix celebrates first anniversary

News Release
FOR February 10, 2003 RELEASE
  	
Contact: Bruce Knox
501.362.2644.
bknox@cox-internet.com

1st Anniversary for openMosix

Palo Alto (February 10, 2003)  - openMosix Project today celebrates its 
first anniversary.  This OpenSource project has quickly attracted thousands 
of users, building thousands of clusters.  OpenSource is more than just 
free access to software source code.

openMosix is a modern OpenSource project which encourages a very active 
user community.  All openMosix extensions are under the full GPLv2 license, 
the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2.  The User-Space Tools were 
completely rewritten to provide this 100% GPL'd clustering solution.  The 
project API is published, allowing openMosix to be an excellent platform 
for new applications.

"For thousands of users, openMosix provides a reliable, fast and 
cost-efficient clustering platform with users in life sciences, finance, 
industry, high-tech, research and government environments." Moshe Bar

First year technical milestones include the addition of installation RPMs 
for Red Hat Linux, SuSE and Mandrake Linux(tm), node Auto Discovery, and 
the port of openMosix to the Intel(r) Itanium(tm) IA-64 Processor 
Family.  Project plans for openMosix' second year include porting to the 
64-bit AMD Opteron(tm) processor, better integration with OpenAFS, the 
release of a first version of DSM, continued support of the latest Linux 
versions, plus tighter integration with Debian GNU/Linux, Gentoo Linux(tm), 
and SuSE.

openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering. 
This kernel extension turns a network of ordinary IA-32 computers into a 
supercomputer for Linux applications.

Once you have installed openMosix, the nodes in the cluster start talking 
to one another and the cluster adapts itself to the workload. Processes 
originating from any one node, if that node is too busy compared to others, 
can migrate to any other node. openMosix continuously attempts to optimize 
the resource allocation.

This is achieved with a kernel patch for Linux, creating a reliable, fast 
and cost-efficient SSI clustering platform that is linearly scalable and 
adaptive. With openMosix' Auto Discovery, a new node can be added while the 
cluster is running and the cluster will automatically begin to use the new 
resources.

There is no need to program applications specifically for openMosix. Since 
all openMosix extensions are inside the kernel, every Linux application 
automatically and transparently benefits from the distributed computing 
concept of openMosix. The cluster behaves much as does a Symmetric 
Multi-Processor, but this solution scales to well over a thousand nodes 
which can themselves be SMPs.

Dr. Moshe Bar leads openMosix' international development team of 
volunteers.  Projects using openMosix include astrophysics, bioinformatics, 
medical, and genone research in private, university, and government 
laboratories.

The openMosix project is hosted on SourceForge.net, which provides 
collaborative development web tools for the project.  Downloads, 
documentation, and additional information are available from 
www.openmosix.org.

openMosix is a very highly regarded, high performance, low cost, flexible, 
and scaleable Cluster Computing System for Linux.  openMosix integrates 
independent computers into a cluster, providing the user with what appears 
to be a single-machine Linux environment.

openMosix is Copyright (c) 2002,2003 Moshe Bar.
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