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Alex Fenyo (eowyn) wrote:
> 
> I don't know the status of MOSIX, but for your information, there is
> another multi-computer parallel machine based on FreeBSD, made in
> France by a collaboration of different universities.
> 
The "status" of MOSIX is fully operational under BSD/OS. Some people
have asked me about this: I only know the MOSIX team is now studying a
port of MOSIX to FreeBSD. They seemed to like our difference with other
OS's (namely Linux), and our licensing terms.

I looked a bit at MPC, it seems cool but I didn't like that they use
this  unstandard hardware, while MOSIX uses anything from network cards
to ATM or higher speed cards. I don't think MOSIX will include source
code, and it seems like they will release a limited version for six
computers, but I can live with it :-). (With six boxes, a common
scientific process could take nearly 1/6 of the time on a fast network).

	Pedro.
> 
> Alexandre Fenyo