Emulate a SMP server with a Linux Cluster?

Question

Is it possible to combine a few machines into a cluster and have it appears as a single server? For example, with such a cluster we can run a 32-thread CPU-bound process on 8 quad-core machines.

Are there any existing software that would allow this? The only thing that I'm aware of is MOSIX, but I'm not sure if it works.

I'm understand that it might incur huge performance overhead. However, I still want to try :)

Answer 1

I've never used it myself, but I know a couple of people who use ScaleMP for this purpose.

http://www.scalemp.com/

Any specific reason you want to try this approach?

Answer 2

http://openssi.org/cgi-bin/view?page=openssi.html