Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 361-372 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Future Generation Computer Systems |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 4-5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1998 |
Keywords
- Cluster computing
- Load-balancing
- Multicomputer systems
- PVM
- Preemptive process migration
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