"We've hired 100 people to work 100 percent on pipeline safety in our distribution system over the last two years, " he said.

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For the scheme to work, the government will need to target beneficiaries properly and revamp the distribution system.

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Created in 2002 openMosix was a free cluster management system that provided single-system image (SSI) capabilities, e.g. automatic work distribution among nodes.

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"Our current system can create some serious work disincentives, particularly at low and high ends of the income distribution, so the potential efficiency gains are pretty clear, " Justin Ross, Professor of Public Finance at Indiana University, told the BBC.

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