News
Release
Tel Aviv, Israel (May 8, 2002) - The openMosix Project has
announced that a sponsor and founding member of the recently founded Gelato
Federation, the Hewlett-Packard Company, has invited the openMosix Team to port
openMosix to the Intel(r) IA64(tm) Processor Family.
The porting project by the openMosix team will begin
immediately with the cooperation and technical support of HP.
HP Linux Systems Operations will provide IA-64 computers to be used for
the porting project development and testing.
HP, long a major participant in the IA-64 Linux Project,
has recently announced significant additional commitments to the Linux Open
Source community. Representative of
these is the co-founding of the Gelato Federation.
openMosix is the type of scalable, Open Source computing solution that
Gelato seeks to bring to the IA-64.
openMosix, created and lead by kernel hacker and book
author Moshe Bar, is the only Linux-based Single System Image Clustering
platform in current production that is Open Source.
IA-64 will offer a hardware upgrade path for thousands of current
openMosix installations, totaling many dozens of thousands of individual
computing nodes.
The porting project is expected to last over six months,
due to the exceptional complexity of the mostly kernel-based openMosix source
code. Porting openMosix will create
the first native High Performance Computing (HPC) platform for the IA-64.
openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for Single System
Image Clustering and is an Open Source Linux-based project under the GNU General
Public License (GPL) Version 2. Information
about openMosix can be found at http://www.openmosix.o
Gelato Federation is a worldwide consortium focused on
enabling Open Source Linux-based Intel(r) Itanium(tm) Processor Family computing
solutions for academic, government and industrial research. Information
about Gelato Federation can be found at http://www.gelato.org.
Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of
computing and imaging solutions and services, and is focused on making
technology and its benefits accessible to all.
Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web
at http://www.hp.com.
Intel, IA64, and Itanium are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and
other countries. Mosix may be a trademark of Amnon Barak. Other names and brands
may be claimed as the property of others.
###