Linux Distro turns PCs into Night-time Clusters

Linux Distro turns PCs into Night-time Clusters 200

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday April 08, 2005 @03:49AM from the imagine-an-ah-you-know-the-rest dept.

renai42 writes "An Australian security firm is about to launch a clustered Linux distribution based on openMosix that aims to utilise the unused nightly processing power of corporate desktops. Dubbed CHAOS, the distro is able to remotely boot a computer and run it on Linux without affecting the local hard disk. CHAOS is designed to provide dumb node power to a cluster run by existing full-featured clustering distributions such as Quantian and ClusterKnoppix."

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Think Lusers. (Score:5, Funny)

by Soko ( 17987 ) writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @03:53AM (#12173860) Homepage

CHAOS is designed to provide dumb node power to a cluster

Hell, my nodes are occupied by the dumb during the day, too. Have we found an actual productive use for lusers?

Soko

Wow... (Score:5, Funny)

by CleverNickedName ( 644160 ) writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @03:56AM (#12173863) Journal

Imagine a hackneyed cliché of these!

This is bound to help the cause... (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @04:01AM (#12173889)

Corporate Linux Fundamentalist 1: There's this new product that uses all our PC's overnight to harness their power for the greater good. It runs on Linux. It would be a good way for us to become more Linux friendly in the workplace.
IT Director: Um, sure, OK, what's it called?
Corporate Linux Fundamentalist: Um, Chaos?

Could they not of thought of a better name, how about .Grid or something else Microsoftie, well at least it wasn't called KAy05

CHAOS: Groovy Name (Score:4, Funny)

by AhaIndia ( 725879 ) writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @04:16AM (#12173937) Journal

"We were just looking for a groovy name that would stick out in a world of groovy names,"

Actually their first choice was "Mandriva" but somebody had recently taken that "groovy" name... Aahhh, just missed!

Quality (Score:5, Funny)

by Indy Media Watch ( 823624 ) writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @04:30AM (#12173984) Homepage

From the press-release [purehacking.com]
What is CHAOS - the supercomupter for your wallet?
The most significant change to the project, as far as the open source community will be conerned, is the quality of the distribution
As they are concerned about quality, any chance they could put all that unused computing power towards a Goddamned spell-checker?

Re:This is bound to help the cause... (Score:2, Funny)

by ggvaidya ( 747058 ) writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @04:36AM (#12174000) Homepage Journal

It's not Chaos, it's CHAOS!

Nothing puts executives on edge like the word CHAOS in big, bold letters :p

Re:Do I lose the use of my CD drive? (Score:5, Funny)

by boron boy ( 858013 ) writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @04:46AM (#12174033) Homepage

It's not that hard to do, even for lazy sysadmins
I think you underestimate my degree of laziness.

Wow! (Score:1, Funny)

by teddaman ( 854135 ) writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @05:04AM (#12174091)

I don't know what you clicked on this time Dad, but this thing's not even running Windows now!

Re:Useful? (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @05:06AM (#12174094)

I work at Taco Bell too, and I let the computer running at night so our anti-virus can prevent robbers from stealing it.

Re:Do I lose the use of my CD drive? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @05:09AM (#12174103)

I'm so lazy I...

Taco Bell?? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @05:16AM (#12174129)

Oh! I see is the biggest Telco of Mexico. isn't it?

woof! (Score:3, Funny)

by spurious cowherd ( 104353 ) writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @06:22AM (#12174352)

Linux Distro turns PCs into Night-time Clusters
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "zombie process"

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by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @07:32AM (#12174580)

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The well kept secret of office PC's worldwide (Score:3, Funny)

by wootest ( 694923 ) writes: on Friday April 08, 2005 @10:55AM (#12176067)

Slave to Microsoft Office by day, supercomputer with immense powers by night!

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Think Lusers. (Score:5, Funny)

Wow... (Score:5, Funny)

This is bound to help the cause... (Score:4, Funny)

CHAOS: Groovy Name (Score:4, Funny)

Quality (Score:5, Funny)

Re:This is bound to help the cause... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Do I lose the use of my CD drive? (Score:5, Funny)

Wow! (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Useful? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Do I lose the use of my CD drive? (Score:1, Funny)

Taco Bell?? (Score:1, Funny)

woof! (Score:3, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)

The well kept secret of office PC's worldwide (Score:3, Funny)

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