Paper Info
Title
The MOSIX Parallel I/O System for Scalable I/O Performance
Abstract
This paper presents the MOSIX Scalable Parallel In- put/Output (MOPI) system that uses the process migration capability of MOSIX for parallel access to segments of data that are scattered among different nodes. MOSIX is a Unix based, cluster operating system that already supports pre- emptive process migration for load-balancing and memory ushering. MOPI supports splitting files to several nodes. It can deliver a high I/O performance by migrating parallel processes to the respective nodes that hold the data, as op- posed to the traditional way of bringing the file's data to the processes. The paper describes the MOSIX infrastructure for supporting parallel file operations and the functions of MOPI. It then presents the performance of MOPI for some data intensive application and its scalability.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2002
IASTED PDCS
cluster computing,parallel i/o,scalable i/o.,mosix,parallel processing,operating system,process migration,load balance
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer science,Parallel computing,Input/output,Parallel I/O,Scalability
Conference
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lior Amar1565.15
Amnon Barak2590119.00
Amnon Shiloh310524.32