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Re: Does Hebrew U. violate the GPL?



On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:

> There's Beowulf. And I think that for start nobody in the government
> understands what MOSIX is, and they probably never heard of it. And then
> again, nobody succeeded in stopping progress by such a means - look at
> American crypto restrictions, that hurt Americans more than others, look
> at French government that got a clue and abandoned crypto restrictions
> just because it hurts more than helps. 

Actually, Beowulf and MOSIX are not the same thing. Beowulf is a mechanism
for running multiple processes on multiple machine, and that's that. MOSIX
is a virtual machine, which goes as high (in term of performance) as the
sum of its parts, if programming and algorithms allow.

> GBY>> stuff is in use in the army. n'uff said...
> 
> So what? They did it as army contractors and signed NDA's you say? And
> again - I understand that's a very BIG STATE SECRET - the source code of
> modules that IDF uses. Especially when it's made in HUJI, when every
> student can potentially get access to the said sources. Don't make me
> laugh.

I had to sign an NDA to get the source code (I worked on an academic
project that included modifying MOSIX code to merge it with the Ensemble
group comm toolkit). So students can NOT get their hands on it. And you
can't even guess the amount of the funds they will get soon. Let's just
say that their 100+ PC cluster will upgrade to a much, much bigger hive.

Shachar Tal
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Faculty of Computer Science, Technion, Israel Institute of Techonlogy
finger shachar@vipe.technion.ac.il for contact information or public key.