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The MOSIX Distributed Operating System

Load Balancing for UNIX

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Amnon Barak
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  2. Shai Guday
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  3. Richard G. Wheeler
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 672)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-4

  3. Overview of MOSIX

    Pages 5-18

  4. The UNIX file system

    Pages 19-36

  5. Distributed UNIX file systems

    Pages 37-76

  6. The UNIX process

    Pages 77-98

  7. The MOSIX process

    Pages 99-114

  8. The MOSIX linker

    Pages 115-134

  9. Load balancing

    Pages 135-168

  10. Scaling considerations

    Pages 169-178

  11. System performance

    Pages 179-188

  12. Distributed applications

    Pages 189-211

  13. Back Matter

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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The MOSIX Distributed Operating System

  • Book Subtitle: Load Balancing for UNIX

  • Editors: Amnon Barak, Shai Guday, Richard G. Wheeler

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56663-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-56663-2Published: 27 May 1993

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-47624-5Published: 01 July 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 229

  • Topics: Operating Systems, Computer Communication Networks

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