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No you can't.

The closest you could get to this would be:

1. assuming a running process pA on nodeA, registered in a cluster-level process registry by name N;

2. send the process pA's state to a function on node B, which will use it to start a process pB on node B that is a clone of pA;

3. update the cluster-level process registry to point N at pB.

4. if you want to be really clever — tail-call (or code-upgrade) pA out of its existing loop, into code that makes pA act as a proxy for pB, so that anything sending a message to pA ends up talking to pB through pA.

But this isn't "sending a process"; pA itself remains "stuck" on nodeA (node IDs are actually embedded in PIDs!), and there's especially no native mechanism that would do things like rewrite the links/monitors on other processes that currently point to pA, to instead point to pB (so if pA was a supervisor, you couldn't "re-parent" the children of pA over to pB.)




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