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.

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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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