We want to make it a capability in which customers can with confidence put their data into a Hadoop cluster based on the Intel distribution, and know that there is going to be this range of applications that come from all sorts of places in the industry.
Researchers at the University of Southampton have followed their instincts and built Iridis-Pi, a tiny 64-node cluster based on the Raspberry Pi's usual Debian Wheezy distribution and linked through Ethernet.
Created in 2002 openMosix was a free cluster management system that provided single-system image (SSI) capabilities, e.g. automatic work distribution among nodes.