Mosix evaluation on a linux cluster
Joint Authors
Husayn, Sayyid Mansur
Kufahi, Najib A.
al-Zahrani, Said
Source
The International Arab Journal of Information Technology
Issue
Vol. 3, Issue 1 (31 Jan. 2006), pp.62-68, 7 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2006-01-31
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Multicomputer Operating System for Unix (MOSIX) is a cluster-computing enhancement of Linux kernel that supports preemptive process migration.
It consists of adaptive resource sharing algorithms for high performance scalability by migrating processes across a cluster.
Message passing Interface (MPI) is a library standard for writing message passing programs, which has the advantage of portability and ease of use.
This paper highlights the advantages of a process migration model to utilize computing resources better and gain considerable speedups in the execution of parallel and multi-tasking applications.
We executed several CPU bound tests under MPI and MOSIX.
The results of these tests show the advantage of using MOSIX over MPI.
At the end of this paper, we present the performance of the executions of those tests, which showed that in some cases improvement in the performance of MOSIX over MPI can reach tens of percents.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kufahi, Najib A.& al-Zahrani, Said& Husayn, Sayyid Mansur. 2006. Mosix evaluation on a linux cluster. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology،Vol. 3, no. 1, pp.62-68.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-11772
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kufahi, Najib A.…[et al.]. Mosix evaluation on a linux cluster. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology Vol. 3, no. 1 (Jan. 2006), pp.62-68.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-11772
American Medical Association (AMA)
Kufahi, Najib A.& al-Zahrani, Said& Husayn, Sayyid Mansur. Mosix evaluation on a linux cluster. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology. 2006. Vol. 3, no. 1, pp.62-68.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-11772
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 67-68
Record ID
BIM-11772