Table 2-1. Pros of openMosix
| No extra packages are required. |
| No code changes to your application are required. |
| Simple to install/configure. |
| On a Red-Hat based system/distro, installing openMosix is as simple as typing: # rpm -Uvh openMosix*.rpm |
| DSM is being released soon (late march 2003). |
| Well integrated with openAFS. |
| Port to IA-64 as well as AMD-64 is underway. |
| oMFS has been improved much since plain MFS. |
| It is a clustering platform with more than 10 products based on it: openMosixView, openMosixWebView, openMosixApplet, RxLinux, PlumpOS, K12LTSP, LTSP and many others. |
| openMosix is a product developed by the users themselves so it's more close to the user by definition. |
| Node autodiscovery/fail-over daemon already implemented in the user land tools via multicast messaging. |
| Aliases for hosts with multiple interfaces. |
| Basic routing available (in the rare case where true multicast routing is undesirable). |
| Cluster Mask allows to specify to which nodes a given process can migrate. |