[DotGNU]Re: MOSIX as WOS

[Bill Lance]

--- David Nicol <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Using the MOSIX patches to the linux kernel
> (www.mosix.org) it
> is possible for several friends who use the same
> road-runner POS,
> for instance, to arrange their machines in a
> peer-to-peer load
> balancing configuration.
> 
> A central DotGUN MOSIX configuration server could be
> set up by
> anyone (with a fat pipe and the willingness to use
> it -- perhaps
> some grad student at an I2 school will read this and
> be inspired?)
> 
> the glue to arrange node log-ins and notifications
> of updated configuration
> files is relatively trivial, as such things go.  I
> am working on
> such glue for use internally at my university and
> when it is ready
> to go I will share it.
> 
> 


This is interesting. I did some experimenting with
MOSIX some time ago and, if I recall, there was a
stronge emphasis on using a totally secure network.
MOSIX left it's nodes open naked to eachother with no
internode security measures in place at all.

How can you use this safely across the internet?


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