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* Development (started/completed): 1977-79
 
* Development (started/completed): 1977-79
* Name:                    UNIX with Satellite Processors.
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* Name:                    UNIX with Satellite Processors
* Machines:                PDP-11/45 + PDP-11/10.
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* Machines:                PDP-11/45 + PDP-11/10
* Compatible with:          Bell Lab's Unix 6.
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* Compatible with:          Bell Lab's Unix 6
 
* References:  
 
* References:  
# A. Barak and A. Shapir, UNIX with satellite Processors. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 383-392, May 1980.
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** A. Barak and A. Shapir, UNIX with satellite Processors. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 383-392, May 1980.
# A. Barak, A. Shapir, G. Steinberg and A.I. Karshmer, A Modular, Distributed UNIX. Proc. 14-th Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Science, pp. 740-747, January 1981.
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** A. Barak, A. Shapir, G. Steinberg and A.I. Karshmer, A Modular, Distributed UNIX. Proc. 14<sup>th</sup> Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Science, pp. 740-747, January 1981.
  
 
===Version 1===
 
===Version 1===
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* Name:                    MOS
 
* Name:                    MOS
 
* Machines:                PDP-11/45 + PDP-11/23
 
* Machines:                PDP-11/45 + PDP-11/23
* Compatible with:          Bell Lab's Unix 7<BR>
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* Compatible with:          Bell Lab's Unix 7
 
* References:
 
* References:
# A. Barak and A. Litman, MOS - A Multicomputer Distributed Operating System. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 725-737, Aug. 1985.
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** A. Barak and A. Litman, MOS - A Multicomputer Distributed Operating System. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 725-737, Aug. 1985.
# A. Barak and A. Shiloh, A Distributed Load-balancing Policy for a Multicomputer. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp. 901-913, Sept. 1985.  
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** A. Barak and A. Shiloh, A Distributed Load-balancing Policy for a Multicomputer. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp. 901-913, Sept. 1985.  
  
 
===Version 2===
 
===Version 2===
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* Compatible with: Bell Lab's Unix 7 with some BSD 4.1 extensions
 
* Compatible with: Bell Lab's Unix 7 with some BSD 4.1 extensions
 
* References:
 
* References:
# A. Barak and O.G. Paradise, MOS - Scaling Up UNIX. Proc. Summer 1986 USENIX Conf., pp. 414-418, Atlanta, GA, June 1986.
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** A. Barak and O.G. Paradise, MOS - Scaling Up UNIX. Proc. Summer 1986 USENIX Conf., pp. 414-418, Atlanta, GA, June 1986.
# A. Barak and O.G. Paradise, MOS - a Load Balancing UNIX. Proc. Autumn 86 EUUG Conf., pp. 273-280, Manchester, Sept. 1986.
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** A. Barak and O.G. Paradise, MOS - a Load Balancing UNIX. Proc. Autumn 86 EUUG Conf., pp. 273-280, Manchester, Sept. 1986.
# A. Barak and D. Malki, Distributed Light Weight Processes in MOS, Proc. Autumn 88 EUUG Conf., pp. 335-343, Cascais, Oct. 1988  
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** A. Barak and D. Malki, Distributed Light Weight Processes in MOS, Proc. Autumn 88 EUUG Conf., pp. 335-343, Cascais, Oct. 1988.
  
 
===Version 3===
 
===Version 3===
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* Compatible with:          AT&T Unix system V release 2
 
* Compatible with:          AT&T Unix system V release 2
 
* Reference:
 
* Reference:
# A. Barel, NSMOS - MOS Port to the National's 32000 Family Architecture. Proc. 2nd Israel Conf. Computer Systems and Soft. Eng., Tel-Aviv, May 1987
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** A. Barel, NSMOS - MOS Port to the National's 32000 Family Architecture. Proc. 2nd Israel Conf. Computer Systems and Soft. Eng., Tel-Aviv, May 1987.
  
 
===Version 4===
 
===Version 4===
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* Compatible with:          AT&T Unix System V release 2
 
* Compatible with:          AT&T Unix System V release 2
 
* References:
 
* References:
# A. Barak and R. Wheeler, MOSIX: An Integrated Multiprocessor UNIX. Proc. Winter 1989 USENIX Conf., pp. 101-112, San Diego, CA, Feb. 1989.  
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** A. Barak and R. Wheeler, MOSIX: An Integrated Multiprocessor UNIX. Proc. Winter 1989 USENIX Conf., pp. 101-112, San Diego, CA, Feb. 1989.  
# A. Barak, A. Shiloh and R. Wheeler, Flood Prevention in the MOSIX Load-Balancing Scheme, IEEE-TCOS Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 24-27, Winter 1989.
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** A. Barak, A. Shiloh and R. Wheeler, Flood Prevention in the MOSIX Load-Balancing Scheme, IEEE-TCOS Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 24-27, Winter 1989.
# A. Barak, S. Guday and R. Wheeler, The MOSIX Distributed Operating System, Load Balancing for UNIX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 672, Springer-Verlag, May 1993.
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** A. Barak, S. Guday and R. Wheeler, The MOSIX Distributed Operating System, Load Balancing for UNIX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 672, Springer-Verlag, May 1993.
  
 
===Version 6===
 
===Version 6===
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* Compatible with:          BSD/OS
 
* Compatible with:          BSD/OS
 
* References:
 
* References:
# A. Barak and Y. Yarom, Transparent Process Migration in a Network of Workstations, Proc. Workshop on Distributed Algorithms and Systems, St. Malo, Oct. 1994.
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** A. Barak and Y. Yarom, Transparent Process Migration in a Network of Workstations, Proc. Workshop on Distributed Algorithms and Systems, St. Malo, Oct. 1994.
# A. Barak, O. La'adan and Y. Yarom, The NOW MOSIX and its Preemptive Process Migration Scheme, Bull. IEEE Tech. Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 5-11, Summer 1995.
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** A. Barak, O. La'adan and Y. Yarom, The NOW MOSIX and its Preemptive Process Migration Scheme, Bull. IEEE Tech. Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 5-11, Summer 1995.
# A. Barak and O. La'adan, Experience with a Scalable PC Cluster for HPC, Proc. Cluster Computing Conf. (CCC 97), Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, March 1997.
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** A. Barak and O. La'adan, Experience with a Scalable PC Cluster for HPC, Proc. Cluster Computing Conf. (CCC 97), Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, March 1997.
# A. Barak and A. Braverman, Memory Ushering in a Scalable Computing Cluster, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol. 22, No. 3-4, pp. 175-182, Aug. 1998.
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** A. Barak and A. Braverman, Memory Ushering in a Scalable Computing Cluster, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol. 22, No. 3-4, pp. 175-182, Aug. 1998.
# A. Barak, I. Gilderman and I. Metrik, Performance of the Communication Layers of TCP/IP with the Myrinet Gigabit LAN, Computer Communications, Vol. 22, No. 11, July 1999.  
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** A. Barak, I. Gilderman and I. Metrik, Performance of the Communication Layers of TCP/IP with the Myrinet Gigabit LAN, Computer Communications, Vol. 22, No. 11, July 1999.  
  
 
===Version 7===
 
===Version 7===
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* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.2
 
* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.2
 
* Reference:
 
* Reference:
# A. Barak, O. La'adan and A. Shiloh, Scalable Cluster Computing with MOSIX for LINUX. Proc. 5-th Annual Linux Expo, pp. 95-100, Raleigh, NC, May 1999.
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** A. Barak, O. La'adan and A. Shiloh, Scalable Cluster Computing with MOSIX for LINUX. Proc. 5-th Annual Linux Expo, pp. 95-100, Raleigh, NC, May 1999.
  
 
===Version 8===
 
===Version 8===
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* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.4
 
* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.4
 
* References:
 
* References:
#Amar L., Barak A. and Shiloh A., The MOSIX Parallel I/O System for Scalable I/O Performance. Proc. 14-th IASTED Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2002), pp. 495-500, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 2002.  
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** L. Amar, A. Barak and A. Shiloh, The MOSIX Parallel I/O System for Scalable I/O Performance. Proc. 14-th IASTED Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2002), pp. 495-500, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 2002.  
  
 
===Version 9===
 
===Version 9===
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* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.4
 
* Compatible with:          LINUX 2.4
 
* Reference:
 
* Reference:
#Amar L., Barak A. and Shiloh A., The MOSIX Direct File System Access Method for Supporting Scalable Cluster File Systems. Cluster Computing, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 141-150, April 2004.
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** A. Amar, A. Barak and A. Shiloh, The MOSIX Direct File System Access Method for Supporting Scalable Cluster File Systems. Cluster Computing, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 141-150, April 2004.
  
 
===Version 10===
 
===Version 10===
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* Compatible with:          Linux-2.6
 
* Compatible with:          Linux-2.6
 
* References:
 
* References:
# A. Barak, A. Shiloh and L. Amar, An Organizational Grid of Federated MOSIX Clusters. Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'05), pp. 350-357, Cardiff, May 2005.
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** A. Barak, A. Shiloh and L. Amar, An Organizational Grid of Federated MOSIX Clusters. Proc. 5<sup>th</sup> IEEE Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'05), pp. 350-357, Cardiff, May 2005.
# L. Amar, A. Barak, E. Levy and M. Okun, An On-line Algorithm for Fair-Share Node Allocations in a Cluster. Proc. 7th IEEE Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'07), pp. 83-91, Rio de Janeiro, May 2007.
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** L. Amar, A. Barak, E. Levy and M. Okun, An On-line Algorithm for Fair-Share Node Allocations in a Cluster. Proc. 7<sup>th</sup>  IEEE Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'07), pp. 83-91, Rio de Janeiro, May 2007.
# E. Meiri and A. Barak, Parallel Compression of Correlated Files, IEEE Cluster 2007, pp.285-292, Austin, TX, Sept. 2007.
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** E. Meiri and A. Barak, Parallel Compression of Correlated Files, IEEE Cluster 2007, pp.285-292, Austin, TX, Sept. 2007.
# T. Maoz, A. Barak and L. Amar, Combining Virtual Machine Migration with Process Migration for HPC on Multi-Clusters and Grids, IEEE Cluster 2008, pp. 89-98, Tsukuba, Sept. 2008
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** T. Maoz, A. Barak and L. Amar, Combining Virtual Machine Migration with Process Migration for HPC on Multi-Clusters and Grids, IEEE Cluster 2008, pp. 89-98, Tsukuba, Sept. 2008.
# L. Amar, A. Barak, Z. Drezner and M. Okun, Randomized Gossip Algorithms for Maintaining a Distributed Bulletin Board with Guaranteed Age Properties, Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Vol. 21, Issue 15, pp. 1907-1927, 2009.  
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** L. Amar, A. Barak, Z. Drezner and M. Okun, Randomized Gossip Algorithms for Maintaining a Distributed Bulletin Board with Guaranteed Age Properties, Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Vol. 21, Issue 15, pp. 1907-1927, 2009.  
  
 
===MOSIX Reach the Clouds (MRC)===
 
===MOSIX Reach the Clouds (MRC)===
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* Compatible with:          Linux-2.6 and OpenCL-1.1
 
* Compatible with:          Linux-2.6 and OpenCL-1.1
 
* Reference:
 
* Reference:
# A. Barak, T. Ben-Nun, E. Levy and A. Shiloh, A Package for OpenCL Based Heterogeneous Computing on Clusters with Many GPU Devices, Workshop on Parallel Programming and Applications on Accelerator Clusters (PPAAC), IEEE Cluster 2010, Crete, Sept. 2010.
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** A. Barak, T. Ben-Nun, E. Levy and A. Shiloh, A Package for OpenCL Based Heterogeneous Computing on Clusters with Many GPU Devices, Workshop on Parallel Programming and Applications on Accelerator Clusters (PPAAC), IEEE Cluster 2010, Crete, Sept. 2010.
# A. Barak and A. Shiloh, The MOSIX Virtual OpenCL Cluster Platform for Concurrent GPU Computing, 2011.   
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** A. Barak and A. Shiloh, The MOSIX Virtual OpenCL Cluster Platform for Concurrent GPU Computing, 2011.   
  
  
 
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Revision as of 18:08, 1 June 2011

Version 0

A research project on process migration started in 1977. A prototype operating system kernel, based on Bell Lab's Unix 6 was developed and tests were performed on a PDP-11/45 and a diskless PDP-11/10 that were connected by parallel I/O.

This study demonstrated that even with slow communication links, it is possible to gain substantial performance improvements by migrating and running processes in remote nodes.

  • Development (started/completed): 1977-79
  • Name: UNIX with Satellite Processors
  • Machines: PDP-11/45 + PDP-11/10
  • Compatible with: Bell Lab's Unix 6
  • References:
    • A. Barak and A. Shapir, UNIX with satellite Processors. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 383-392, May 1980.
    • A. Barak, A. Shapir, G. Steinberg and A.I. Karshmer, A Modular, Distributed UNIX. Proc. 14th Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Science, pp. 740-747, January 1981.

Version 1

  • Development (started/completed): 1981-83
  • Name: MOS
  • Machines: PDP-11/45 + PDP-11/23
  • Compatible with: Bell Lab's Unix 7
  • References:
    • A. Barak and A. Litman, MOS - A Multicomputer Distributed Operating System. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 725-737, Aug. 1985.
    • A. Barak and A. Shiloh, A Distributed Load-balancing Policy for a Multicomputer. Software - Practice & Experience, Vol. 15, No. 9, pp. 901-913, Sept. 1985.

Version 2

  • Development(started/completed): 1983-84
  • Name: MOS
  • Machines: CADMUS/PCS MC68K
  • Compatible with: Bell Lab's Unix 7 with some BSD 4.1 extensions
  • References:
    • A. Barak and O.G. Paradise, MOS - Scaling Up UNIX. Proc. Summer 1986 USENIX Conf., pp. 414-418, Atlanta, GA, June 1986.
    • A. Barak and O.G. Paradise, MOS - a Load Balancing UNIX. Proc. Autumn 86 EUUG Conf., pp. 273-280, Manchester, Sept. 1986.
    • A. Barak and D. Malki, Distributed Light Weight Processes in MOS, Proc. Autumn 88 EUUG Conf., pp. 335-343, Cascais, Oct. 1988.

Version 3

  • Development (started/completed): 1987-88
  • Name: NSMOS
  • Machines: NS32332
  • Compatible with: AT&T Unix system V release 2
  • Reference:
    • A. Barel, NSMOS - MOS Port to the National's 32000 Family Architecture. Proc. 2nd Israel Conf. Computer Systems and Soft. Eng., Tel-Aviv, May 1987.

Version 4

  • Development (started/completed): 1988
  • Name: MOSIX
  • Machines: VAX-780 + VAX-750
  • Compatible with: AT&T Unix System V release 2

Version 5

  • Development (started/completed): 1988-89
  • Name: MOSIX
  • Machines: NS32532
  • Compatible with: AT&T Unix System V release 2
  • References:
    • A. Barak and R. Wheeler, MOSIX: An Integrated Multiprocessor UNIX. Proc. Winter 1989 USENIX Conf., pp. 101-112, San Diego, CA, Feb. 1989.
    • A. Barak, A. Shiloh and R. Wheeler, Flood Prevention in the MOSIX Load-Balancing Scheme, IEEE-TCOS Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 24-27, Winter 1989.
    • A. Barak, S. Guday and R. Wheeler, The MOSIX Distributed Operating System, Load Balancing for UNIX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 672, Springer-Verlag, May 1993.

Version 6

  • Development (started/completed): 1991-93
  • Name: MOSIX
  • Machines: 486/Pentium
  • Compatible with: BSD/OS
  • References:
    • A. Barak and Y. Yarom, Transparent Process Migration in a Network of Workstations, Proc. Workshop on Distributed Algorithms and Systems, St. Malo, Oct. 1994.
    • A. Barak, O. La'adan and Y. Yarom, The NOW MOSIX and its Preemptive Process Migration Scheme, Bull. IEEE Tech. Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 5-11, Summer 1995.
    • A. Barak and O. La'adan, Experience with a Scalable PC Cluster for HPC, Proc. Cluster Computing Conf. (CCC 97), Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, March 1997.
    • A. Barak and A. Braverman, Memory Ushering in a Scalable Computing Cluster, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol. 22, No. 3-4, pp. 175-182, Aug. 1998.
    • A. Barak, I. Gilderman and I. Metrik, Performance of the Communication Layers of TCP/IP with the Myrinet Gigabit LAN, Computer Communications, Vol. 22, No. 11, July 1999.

Version 7

  • Development (started/completed): 1998-99
  • Name: MOSIX
  • Machines: x86
  • Compatible with: LINUX 2.2
  • Reference:
    • A. Barak, O. La'adan and A. Shiloh, Scalable Cluster Computing with MOSIX for LINUX. Proc. 5-th Annual Linux Expo, pp. 95-100, Raleigh, NC, May 1999.

Version 8

  • Development(started/completed): 2000-01
  • Name: MOSIX
  • Machines: x86
  • Compatible with: LINUX 2.4
  • References:
    • L. Amar, A. Barak and A. Shiloh, The MOSIX Parallel I/O System for Scalable I/O Performance. Proc. 14-th IASTED Int. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2002), pp. 495-500, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 2002.

Version 9

  • Development (started/completed): 2003
  • Name: MOSIX (Version 1)
  • Machines: x86
  • Compatible with: LINUX 2.4
  • Reference:
    • A. Amar, A. Barak and A. Shiloh, The MOSIX Direct File System Access Method for Supporting Scalable Cluster File Systems. Cluster Computing, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 141-150, April 2004.

Version 10

  • Development (started/completed): 2004-06
  • Name: MOSIX (Version 2)
  • Machines: x86
  • Compatible with: Linux-2.6
  • References:
    • A. Barak, A. Shiloh and L. Amar, An Organizational Grid of Federated MOSIX Clusters. Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'05), pp. 350-357, Cardiff, May 2005.
    • L. Amar, A. Barak, E. Levy and M. Okun, An On-line Algorithm for Fair-Share Node Allocations in a Cluster. Proc. 7th IEEE Int. Symp. on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'07), pp. 83-91, Rio de Janeiro, May 2007.
    • E. Meiri and A. Barak, Parallel Compression of Correlated Files, IEEE Cluster 2007, pp.285-292, Austin, TX, Sept. 2007.
    • T. Maoz, A. Barak and L. Amar, Combining Virtual Machine Migration with Process Migration for HPC on Multi-Clusters and Grids, IEEE Cluster 2008, pp. 89-98, Tsukuba, Sept. 2008.
    • L. Amar, A. Barak, Z. Drezner and M. Okun, Randomized Gossip Algorithms for Maintaining a Distributed Bulletin Board with Guaranteed Age Properties, Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Vol. 21, Issue 15, pp. 1907-1927, 2009.

MOSIX Reach the Clouds (MRC)

  • Development (started/completed): 2008-09
  • Name: MRC
  • Machines: x86/i64
  • Compatible with: Linux-2.6

MOSIX Virtual OpenCL (VCL) Cluster Platform

  • Development (started): 2009
  • Name: MOSIX VCL
  • Machines: x86/i64 with GPU devices
  • Compatible with: Linux-2.6 and OpenCL-1.1
  • Reference:
    • A. Barak, T. Ben-Nun, E. Levy and A. Shiloh, A Package for OpenCL Based Heterogeneous Computing on Clusters with Many GPU Devices, Workshop on Parallel Programming and Applications on Accelerator Clusters (PPAAC), IEEE Cluster 2010, Crete, Sept. 2010.
    • A. Barak and A. Shiloh, The MOSIX Virtual OpenCL Cluster Platform for Concurrent GPU Computing, 2011.


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