Hacker News Reader

In 2005 I saw a demo of this product from VirtualIron called VFe, which did this on a smaller scale (maybe 10 servers) -- it looked amazing.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2005/ols2005v2-pages-243-258....

View on HN

Mosix, Virtual Iron, vNUMA, ScaleMP, etc. are variants of the RPC fallacy: making remote/slow/independent things pretend to be local/fast/fate-shared. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~waldo/Readings/waldo-94.pdf Successful distributed software tends to go the opposite direction, making asynchrony and unreliability the base case.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com