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Recent MOSIX2 Publications

  • White paper: The MOSIX2 Management System for Linux Clusters and Multi-Clusters.

  • MOSIX2 User's and Administrator's Guides and Manuals.

  • Presentations: Overview of MOSIX2 and MOSIX2 tutorial.

  • Amar L., Barak A., Drezner Z. and Okun M., Randomized Gossip Algorithms for Maintaining a Distributed Bulletin Board with Guaranteed Age Properties, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, InterScience, Wiley, March 2009.

  • Maoz T., Barak A. and Amar L., Combining Virtual Machine Migration with Process Migration for HPC on Multi-Clusters and Grids, IEEE Cluster 2008, Tsukuba, Sept. 2008.

  • Amar L., Stosser J., Levy E., Shiloh A, Barak A. and Neumann D., Harnessing Migration in Market-based Grid OS, 9th IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Grid Computing (Grid 2008), Tsukuba, Sept. 2008.

  • Meiri E. and Barak A., Parallel Compression of Correlated Files, IEEE Cluster 2007, Austin, TX, Sept. 2007.

  • Amar L., Barak A., Levy E. and Okun M., An On-line Algorithm for Fair-Share Node Allocations in a Cluster. Proc. 7-th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'07), pp. 83-91, Rio de Janeiro, May 2007.

  • Barak A., Shiloh A. and Amar L., An Organizational Grid of Federated MOSIX Clusters. Proc. 5-th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'05), pp. 350-357, Cardiff, May 2005.

    Additional publications are listed in the MOSIX wiki.


  • Selected MOSIX Version 1 Publications

  • Amar L., Barak A. and Shiloh A., The MOSIX Direct File System Access Method for Supporting Scalable Cluster File Systems. Cluster Computing (7) 2, pp. 141-150, April 2004.

  • Keren A. and Barak A., Opportunity Cost Algorithms for Reduction of I/O and Interprocess Communication Overhead in a Computing Cluster. IEEE Tran. Parallel and Distributed Systems (14) 1, pp. 39-50, Jan. 2003.

  • Amar L., Barak A. and Shiloh A., The MOSIX Parallel I/O System for Scalable I/O Performance. Proc. 14-th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2002), pp. 495-500, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 2002.

  • Amir Y., Awerbuch B., Barak A., Borgstrom R.S. and Keren A., An Opportunity Cost Approach for Job Assignment in a Scalable Computing Cluster. IEEE Tran. Parallel and Distributed Systems (11) 7, pp. 760-768, July 2000.

  • McClure S. and Wheeler R., MOSIX: How Linux Clusters Solve Real World Problems. Proc. 2000 USENIX Annual Tech. Conf., pp. 49-56, San Diego, CA., June 2000.

  • Barak A., La'adan O. and Shiloh A., Scalable Cluster Computing with MOSIX for Linux . Proc. Linux Expo '99, pp. 95-100, Raleigh, N.C., May 1999.

  • Barak A. and La'adan O., The MOSIX Multicomputer Operating System for High Performance Cluster Computing. Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (13) 4-5, pp. 361-372, March 1998.


    The MOSIX (Version 1) book

    Barak A., Guday S. and Wheeler R., The MOSIX Distributed Operating System, Load Balancing for UNIX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 672, Springer-Verlag, 1993, available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.

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