*Result*: MOSIX: How Linux Clusters Solve Real World Problems

Title:
MOSIX: How Linux Clusters Solve Real World Problems
Contributors:
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Publication Year:
2000
Collection:
CiteSeerX
Document Type:
*Academic Journal* text
File Description:
application/postscript
Language:
English
Rights:
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it.
Accession Number:
edsbas.94A704FD
Database:
BASE

*Further Information*

*As the complexity of software increases, the size of the software tends to increase as well, which incurs longer compilation and build cycles. In this paper, the authors present one example of how clusters of Linux systems, using the MOSIX extensions for load monitoring and remote execution, were used to eliminate a performance bottleneck and to reduce the cost of building software. We present a discussion of our original software development cluster, an analysis of the performance issues in that cluster, and the development and modifications done to MOSIX and Linux in order to produce a solution to our problem. We finish by presenting future developments that will enhance our cluster. Introduction As computers increase their processing power, software complexity grows at an even larger rate in order to consume all of these new CPU cycles. Not only does running the new software require more CPU cycles, but the time required to compile and link the software also increases. EMC Corpor.*