The MOSIX Distributed Operating System von Amnon Barak | Load Balancing for UNIX | ISBN 9783540476245

The MOSIX Distributed Operating System

Load Balancing for UNIX

von Amnon Barak, Shai Guday und Richard G. Wheeler
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinAmnon Barak
Autor / AutorinShai Guday
Autor / AutorinRichard G. Wheeler
Buchcover The MOSIX Distributed Operating System | Amnon Barak | EAN 9783540476245 | ISBN 3-540-47624-5 | ISBN 978-3-540-47624-5

The MOSIX Distributed Operating System

Load Balancing for UNIX

von Amnon Barak, Shai Guday und Richard G. Wheeler
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinAmnon Barak
Autor / AutorinShai Guday
Autor / AutorinRichard G. Wheeler
This book describes the design and internals of the MOSIX
distributed         operating system. MOSIX, an acronym for
Multicomputer Operating System for   UNIX, integrates a
cluster of loosely integrated computers into a               virtual
single-machine UNIX environment. The main property of MOSIX
is   the high degree of integration among the processors,
which may include         personal workstations and shared memory
and non-shared memory                     multiprocessors, connected by fast
communication links. This integration      includes network
transparency, cooperation between the processors to            provide
services across machine boundaries, support of                                 dynamic
configuration, and system-initiated load balancing by
process   migration. Another property of MOSIX is the ability
to scale up the system   configuration to encompass a large
number of computers. The development of   MOSIX was begun in
1981. The book is intended primarily for readers who      are
interested in distributed and multiprocessor systems. The
reader is assumed to have some knowledge in programming and
operating systems,            preferably UNIX. Readers without this
background will still benefit from thetechniques and
algorithms discussed.