Main features
- Provides aspects of a single-system image:
- users can login on any node and do not need to know where
their programs run.
- No need to link applications with special libraries.
- No need to copy files to remote nodes.
- Automatic resource discovery and workload distribution by process
migration:
- Load-balancing.
- Migrating processes from slower to faster nodes
and from nodes that run out of free memory.
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- Migratable sockets for direct communication between
migrated processes.
- Secure run time environment (sandbox) for guest processes.
- Live queuing - queued jobs preserve their full generic
Linux environment.
- Batch jobs.
- Checkpoint and recovery.
- Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 architectures.
- Tools: automatic installation & configuration scripts,
on-line monitors.
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