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Question:

How MRC works

Answer:

MRC consists of two parts, a launching program that can send jobs from the user's "head-node", e.g. workstation, to a designated target node, and a run-time environment that provides file services to running jobs on target computers.

If the target node is part of a MOSIX cluster, then MRC jobs can benefit from all the MOSIX features. If a target node runs Linux (but not MOSIX), then MRC jobs can only run there as native Linux jobs.