The MOSIX Distributed Operating System

Amnon Barak

ISBN 10: 3540566635 / ISBN 13: 9783540566632

Editore: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 1993, 1993

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book describes the design and internals of the MOSIXdistributed operating system. MOSIX, an acronym forMulticomputer Operating System for UNIX, integrates acluster of loosely integrated computers into a virtualsingle-machine UNIX environment. The main property of MOSIXis the high degree of integration among the processors,which may include personal workstations and shared memoryand non-shared memory multiprocessors, connected by fastcommunication links. This integration includes networktransparency, cooperation between the processors to provideservices across machine boundaries, support of dynamicconfiguration, and system-initiated load balancing byprocess migration. Another property of MOSIX is the abilityto scale up the system configuration to encompass a largenumber of computers. The development of MOSIX was begun in1981. The book is intended primarily for readers who areinterested in distributed and multiprocessor systems. Thereader is assumed to have some knowledge in programming andoperating systems, preferably UNIX. Readers without thisbackground will still benefit from thetechniques andalgorithms discussed. 240 pp. Englisch. Codice articolo 9783540566632

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Titolo: The MOSIX Distributed Operating System

Casa editrice: Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 1993

Data di pubblicazione: 1993

Legatura: Taschenbuch

Condizione: Neu

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This book describes the design and internals of the MOSIXdistributed operating system. MOSIX, an acronym forMulticomputer Operating System for UNIX, integrates acluster of loosely integrated computers into a virtualsingle-machine UNIX environment. The main property of MOSIXis the high degree of integration among the processors,which may include personal workstations and shared memoryand non-shared memory multiprocessors, connected by fastcommunication links. This integration includes networktransparency, cooperation between the processors to provideservices across machine boundaries, support of dynamicconfiguration, and system-initiated load balancing byprocess migration. Another property of MOSIX is the abilityto scale up the system configuration to encompass a largenumber of computers. The development of MOSIX was begun in1981. The book is intended primarily for readers who areinterested in distributed and multiprocessor systems. Thereader is assumed to have some knowledge in programming andoperating systems, preferably UNIX. Readers without thisbackground will still benefit from thetechniques andalgorithms discussed.

Contenuti:

Overview of MOSIX.- The UNIX file system.- Distributed UNIX file systems.- The UNIX process.- The MOSIX process.- The MOSIX linker.- Load balancing.- Scaling considerations.- System performance.- Distributed applications.