TY - JOUR
T1 - The MOSIX multicomputer operating system for high performance cluster computing
AU - Barak, Amnon
AU - La'adan, Oren
PY - 1998/3
Y1 - 1998/3
N2 - The scalable computing cluster at Hebrew University consists of 88 Pentium II and Pentium-Pro 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 multiuser 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.
AB - The scalable computing cluster at Hebrew University consists of 88 Pentium II and Pentium-Pro 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 multiuser 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.
KW - Cluster computing
KW - Load-balancing
KW - Multicomputer systems
KW - PVM
KW - Preemptive process migration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0032021963&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/s0167-739x(97)00037-x
DO - 10.1016/s0167-739x(97)00037-x
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AN - SCOPUS:0032021963
SN - 0167-739X
VL - 13
SP - 361
EP - 372
JO - Future Generation Computer Systems
JF - Future Generation Computer Systems
IS - 4-5
ER -