Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix
Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix
Posted Jan 21, 2022 13:58 UTC (Fri) by malmedal (subscriber, #56172)In reply to: Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix by Cyberax
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I don't think Beowulf clusters had that capability. You could schedule your job in any cluster-member, but not move them. Similarly with VMS, you could maintain the illusion of 100% uptime of a specially written application even while replacing all hardware.(admittedly I've only used VMS on VAX, maybe later versions could actually move jobs).
MOSIX however, could move arbitrary processes between cluster machines.
Another option is Condor, which uses CRIU to move simple processes.
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