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Came here for the MOSIX, not disappointed. I worked at a facility that ran it on a small science cluster, and it worked extremely well.

A fun wrinkle: When the Intel C compilers first came out, they had warnings about process migration -- there's an executable mode where the executable checks to see what kind of CPU it's on at launch-time, and then branches to CPU-specific code blocks during the run. This can be dangerous, the check is only done once, so if the CPU type changes in mid-run due to migration to different hardware, Bad Things can happen.



This sounds like the same feature that Intel's C compiler used to "cripple AMD" by switching to a slower code path when it detected that the program was running on a non-Intel CPU.

https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49#49




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