[JohnHaugeland]

this is called "erlang"

[JonChesterfield]

Not so much. Erlang does the one machine or many feature but only by writing your program as a bunch of objects communicating by message passing. Elixer seems to be the same. I'm thinking more along the lines of Id or parallel Haskell.

[engineerDave]

Also achievable with elixir (via erlang)