Flutterby™! :

One one of the many Linux mailing lists I inhabit, Chugalug, we've been talking about the ridiculous levels of modern computing technology. This morning on /. there was mention of MOSIX:

MOSIX is a software tool for supporting cluster computing. The core of MOSIX are kernel-level, adaptive load-balancing and memory ushering algorithms that are geared for maximal performance, overhead-free scalability and ease-of-use of a scalable computing cluster. These algorithms are designed to respond to variations in the resource usage among the nodes by migrating processes from one node to another, preemptively and transparently. MOSIX provides some SMP/NUMA functionalities in order to allow a cluster of PCs (workstations and servers) to work cooperatively as if part of a single system.