TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barak,Amnon
AU  - Guday,Shai
AU  - Wheeler,Richard G.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The MOSIX Distributed Operating System: Load Balancing for UNIX 
T2  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
SN  - 9783540476245
AV  - QA76.76.O63 
U1  - 005.43 23
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Computer Communication Networks
KW  - Operating systems (Computers)
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Operating Systems
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56663-5
ER  -