The MOSIX Multicomputer Operating System for High Performance Cluster Computing (1998)
| Venue: | Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems |
| Citations: | 121 - 8 self |
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@ARTICLE{Barak98themosix,
author = {Amnon Barak},
title = {The MOSIX Multicomputer Operating System for High Performance Cluster Computing},
journal = {Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems},
year = {1998},
volume = {13},
pages = {4--5}
}
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Abstract
The scalable computing cluster at Hebrew University consists of 64 Pentium and PentiumPro servers that are connected by fast Ethernet and the Myrinet LANs. It is running the MOSIX operating system, an enhancement of BSD/OS with algorithms for adaptive resource sharing, that are geared for performance scalability in a scalable computing cluster. These algorithms use a preemptive process migration for load-balancing and memory ushering, in order to create a convenient multi-user time-sharing execution environment for HPC, particularly for applications that are written in PVM or MPI. This paper begins with a brief overview of MOSIX and its resource sharing algorithms. Then the paper presents the performance of these algorithms as well as the performance of several large-scale, parallel applications. Keywords: Cluster computing, load-balancing, preemptive process migration, PVM 1 Introduction Scalable Computing Clusters (CC), ranging from a cluster of (homogeneous) servers to a Network of...
