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Other authors / contributors: | Guday, Shai.
Wheeler, Richard G.
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ISBN: | 9783540476245 3540476245 3540566635 9783540566632 0387566635 9780387566634
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index. Restrictions unspecified Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed Oct. 29, 2013).
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Summary: | 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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Other form: | Print version: Barak, Amnon. MOSIX distributed operating system. Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1993
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