Linux Gazette: Process Cloning in C Mar 5, 2000, 18 :22 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (4406 reads) (Other stories by Alex Vrenios)
"... process migration refers to the automatic redistribution of active
processes within a cluster system, and agent migration describes processes
on a mission, gathering data for a full report upon returning home...
self-directed movement of a process from one networked machine to another,
is the subject of leading edge research."
"Cluster systems are multi-computers, a network of machines that present
a single-server image to a client. There are many different processes
running on a cluster system, some of which may self-replicate in order to
handle a suddenly higher client request load. A cluster operating system
may direct one or more of its processes to migrate to other machines on its
network, redistributing the overall system resource load."
"The very first step toward implementing any process migration system is
to figure out how to get a duplicate process started on some other machine
from within your active process... What system file modifications must be
made to a remote machine in order to make it amenable to your request to
run a copy of your active process? Let's examine the issues surrounding
what we call process cloning."
