[LUG] Terminal/cluster

[Jonathan Melhuish <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Okay, here's a boring and undirected post that I expect everyone will ignore, 
but maybe it'll give someone an idea at some point in the future:

Heres the basic vision:

*  More powerful server
*  Less powerful workstations

The clients run their own X servers, but run everything else on the server.  
This has the advantage that programs should start quickly, if the server has 
a fast disk or already has some of the files in RAM.  But then, gradually, 
the processes migrate away from the server, probably towards the workstation, 
to better utilise the resources of the cluster as a whole, and possibly 
increase responsiveness slightly.

On top of that, it would be pretty cool if the network was topoligically 
divided into segments and files were cached accross the workstations (on disk 
if they have them, or in RAM) and fetched from active neighbours if 
available, rather than the server.

This idea would strike a balance between the "fat client + fileserver" and 
"fat server + thin client" schools of thinking and, IMHO, make better use of 
present-day computing power.

I know the OpenMosix team have designed a kernel capable of doing the process 
migration, but does anybody know if there is a similar project to the LTSP 
that impliments this idea?

Jon
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