History
The origins of OpenSSI date back to the early 1980s when the LOCUS distributed operating system was developed at UCLA. The team that developed LOCUS went on to form the Locus Computing Corporation and produced various versions of the LOCUS technology under several names, culminating in the development of the UnixWare NonStop Clusters product at Tandem Computers, which had by that time acquired the LOCUS team and rights to the technology. NonStop Clusters for Unixware was commercialized by SCO as an add-on for UnixWare. When SCO stopped selling NonStop Clusters, the former Locus team, now working for Compaq (which had acquired Tandem in the interim), ported the NonStop Clusters code to Linux and released it as open source. The team at Compaq continued to develop the system, now called OpenSSI, for some time after HP acquired Compaq. OpenSSI is currently developed by an independent team.
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