Paper Info
Title
Performance of the MOSIX Parallel System for a Cluster of PCs
Abstract
The scalable PC cluster at Hebrew University consists of 48 Pentium 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 dynamic resource sharing that are geared for performance scalability in a scalable computing clus- ter. These algorithms use a preemptive process migration mechanism for load-balancing and memory-sharing, in order to create a convenient multi-user time-sharing execution environment for HPC, particularly for applications that are written in PVM or MPI. This paper gives 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1007/BFb0031634
HPCN Europe
Keywords
Field
DocType
mosix parallel system,time sharing,operating system,resource sharing,load balance,process migration,parallel systems
Fast Ethernet,Computer science,Server,Process migration,Parallel computing,Pentium,Shared resource,Myrinet,Operating system,Computer cluster,Distributed computing,Scalability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1225
0302-9743
3-540-62898-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.70
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amnon Barak1590119.00
Oren La'adan213017.23