Re: single-system image clustering obsolete?

["Jonas Trollvik" <jontro@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is already mentioned/discussed in the following thread:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2007-07/msg00044.html

Regards,
Jonas Trollvik

On 7/17/07, Ed <df@bsd.it> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have just read the end-of-life announcement of OpenMosix (a Linux extension
> for single-system image clustering that allows building a cluster from
> ordinary networked computers).
>
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=715406
>
>
> What hit me is the reason:
>
> The increasing power and availability of low cost multi-core processors is
> rapidly making single-system image (SSI) Clustering less of a factor in
> computing. The direction of computing is clear and key developers are moving
> into newer virtualization approaches and other projects.
>
>
> Isn't SSI a major goal of DragonFly?