MRMrBuddyCasino·Mar 12, 2026Submission
Outrun: Like Plan 9 'CPU', but for Linux
2 points · Open discussionOverv
outrun
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Overv / outrun
outrun
Execute a local command using the processing power of another Linux machine.
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10 sourcesThat's exactly what I set out to do with my pet project :)
https://github.com/Overv/outrun
In FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg serversI see Open-source, but I'm not able to find any link to a repo anywhere on that page. And while it's not as popular as I think it should be, there is a project already called outrun (https://github.com/Overv/outrun), the domains are different so it might not matter much.
Edit: Nevermind perbu provided the source link and the both projects appear to be stale anyways.
In OutRun: Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness trackerWhile it's purpose is different it can be used to do distributed compiling, so I'll leave it here.
https://github.com/Overv/outrun
Since I was just going down this rabbit hole recently, I kind of wonder if it's possible to set the filesystem on something more like the BitTorrent protocol so things like the libraries/compilers/headers that are used during compilation dont all need to come from the main pc. It probably wouldn't be useful until you reached a stupid number of computers and you started reaching the limits of the Ethernet wire, but for something stupid that can run on a pi cluster it would be a fun project.
In Distcc: A fast, free distributed C/C++ compilerOff-topic, but google-fu is failing me: wasn't there a similar project posted here a while back, that instead shipped a binary + a virtual file system that mirrored all local resources to a remote host so that the entire process could run there? IIRC the author demonstrated it running an ffmepg transcode?
edit: Got it, after a while: https://github.com/Overv/outrun
In Teleforking a Process onto a Different ComputerAwesome! This write up is satisfyingly detailed. Prior work in this space includes Plan9 of course, as well as the python project Outrun, which has it's own RPC-based FUSE FS: https://github.com/Overv/outrun
Other approachs to deployment in particular include the functional package managers Nix and Guix, which can create lightweight application images, and could probably be cobbled together into some sort of remote environment replication even across architectures. As I read on, I thought less about how this compares with Guix in regards to application/environment packaging and more about how these things could be glued together in interesting ways, because I think the intro leads in through slightly off-label examples, if that makes sense. Application packaging isn't what this addresses at the end of the day, but it's no less fascinating
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They are indeed bind-mounted separately in the chroot on top of the local file system: https://github.com/Overv/outrun/blob/1e86c429c60022421de68f2...
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