[MUD-Dev] MOSIX: Multi-computer Operating System for unIX

[J C Lawrence <claw#under,engr.sgi.com>]

For our larger server projects:

  http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/mosix/

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MOSIX is a set of enhancements for supporting cluster computing. The
core of the MOSIX technology are adaptive load-balancing and memory
ushering algorithms that allow multiple PC's to work cooperatively
as if part of a single computer. MOSIX can be viewed as a bridge
between MPP and SMP systems for the efficient execution of
sequential and parallel applications in a scalable cluster of PC's.

The first PC version of MOSIX was developed for BSDI's BSD/OS. 

MOSIX for Linux is now under development.

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and:

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MOSIX is an enhancement of the operating system kernel, with
adaptive resource sharing algorithms that are geared for performance
scalability in a (shared-nothing) scalable computing cluster. The
core of the MOSIX technology is the capability of multiple PC's to
work cooperatively as if part of a single computer. The resource
sharing algorithms of MOSIX are designed to respond (on-line) to
variations in the resource usage among the PC's (nodes), by
migrating processes from one node to another, preemptively and
transparently, for load-balancing and memory sharing. These
algorithms attempt to improve the overall (cluster-wide) performance
by dynamic redistribution of the workload and the available
resources, in order to create a convenient multi-user time-sharing
environment for the execution of both sequential and parallel
applications. The algorithms of MOSIX can switch the configuration
to MPP single user mode, Computing Cluster multi-user mode, or a
Single System Image mode. As such, MOSIX can be viewed as a bridge
between MPP and SMP systems.

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