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Fork

Mosix allows to avoid headaches, as one of its stronger points. It is the so-called: "fork-and-foget" model. Basically: Create new tasks with fork(), communicate them by files on a common share filesystem and enjoy! This only works on Beowulf clusters, not on Mosix clusters.



David Santo Orcero 2000-11-24