newby
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Posted: July 21 2006,11:10 |
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Thanks for the moral support guys!
My vision is of a system that would work out of the box for the ordinary user. Beowolf, though a great system, requires way too much programming and configuration support.
That's why I'm focused on openMosix which handles load balancing in the background. openMosix, however, works at the local Lan level. My vision is to hack it to work at the Internet level. This would require the openMosix kernal patch _and_ another patch as yet unwritten.
Since I am not a C hacker, I need to interest someone who is one. Two or three components seem to be what's needed as a minimum:
1. The kernel patch that does what the openMosix patch does, but across the Internet, through one's firewall/router;
2. A CGI script that accesses a database of information about projects, connects nodes to the projects they select and tracks the amount of time donated; and
3. A Firefox plugin to do anything needed on the node end, like maintain a database of previously selected projects, a database of servers and report the amount of time donated.
I'm working on finding a scripting language that I like. (Others could, and will, use other languages.)
However, I am _not_ a C hacker and need to find one enthusiastic enough to take this on. Once started, advice could be had from the openMosix community.
So, if you've written a few C programs and kernal hacking would be just the thing to stretch your abilities, hop on board.
P.S. to John & Roberts: Once working the patch(s) will be drop-in code that will require little more than an extra line in your make file. As best as I can tell, the kernel patch adds just a few hundred bytes and does not effect the functioning of the kernal unless the rest of the openMosix software is turned on. What I'm saying is, the kernal patch could be painlessly added to the base distro and the rest could be a *.dsl or a *tar.gz loaded by the user.
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