Beowulf vs. MOSIX

[Szwedyk, Peter]

It seems to me that for business applications, MOSIX might be a better way
to go as a quick and easy way to take advantage of clusters.  With its load
balancing and transparent process migration, even existing serial
applications should be able to take advantage of the power of clusters.
With Beowulf, on the other hand, one must parallelize the code in order to
see any improvement in performance.

Is this assessment accurate?  Any comments?

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Peter Szwedyk
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Securities Lending Technology
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