Editing MOSIX (section)

==== MOSIX for HPC ====
MOSIX is most suitable for running [[High-performance computing|HPC]] applications with low to moderate amount of I/O. Tests of MOSIX show that the performance of several such applications over a 1&nbsp;Gbit/s campus grid is nearly identical to that of a single cluster.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}} It is particularly suitable for:

* Efficient utilization of grid-wide resources, by automatic resource discovery and load-balancing.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}}
* Running applications with unpredictable resource requirements or run times.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}}
* Running long processes, which are automatically sent to grid nodes and are migrated back when these nodes are disconnected from the grid.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}}
* Combining nodes of different speeds, by migrating processes among nodes based on their respective speeds, current load, and available memory.{{Citation needed|date=November 2007}}

A few examples:

* Scientific applications – [[genomic]], [[protein sequence]]s, [[molecular dynamics]], quantum dynamics, [[nano-technology]] and other parallel HPC applications.
* Engineering applications – CFD, [[weather forecasting]], [[crash simulation]]s, oil industry, [[ASIC]] design, pharmaceutical and other HPC applications.