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MOSIX for Clusters and Multi-clusters

MOSIX for Linux-2.6 and Linux 3 can manage Linux clusters, multi-clusters and Clouds.

Main cluster features
  • Provides a single-system image.
  • Automatic resource discovery.
  • Dynamic workload distribution.
  • Automatic load-balancing.
  • Direct communication between migrated processes.
  • Migrated (guest) processes run in a sandbox.
  • Live queuing, batch jobs, checkpoints.
  • Supports the 64-bit X86 architecture.
  • Automatic installation and configuration.
  • On-line monitors.
  • Can be combined with VCL to create a GPU cluster.
  • Additional multi-cluster features
  • Supports disruptive configurations: clusters can join or be disconnected at any time.
  • Guest processes move out before disconnecting a cluster.
  • Clusters can be shared symmetrically or asymmetrically.
  • Cluster owner can assign different priorities to guest processes from other clusters.
  • Further information is available in the User's and Administrator's Guides and Manuals, the White Paper, wiki, changelog, publications, Tutorial and Overview presentations and the HUGI campus multi-cluster web page.

    Obtaining a Copy

    The latest distribution (for any number of nodes, with no expiration date) is provided upon acceptance that the following license applies to most parts of the MOSIX package, except the parts that are marked otherwise:

    Thank you for your interest in MOSIX.


    For All Linux Distributions

    The latest distribution is MOSIX-2.33.0.0 for Kernel-3.1.5. Configuration and installation instructions are provided in the README file and the User's and Administrator's guides. The changelog can be found here.

    Recent, unlimited distributions can be found here.   Older (limited to 6 nodes) distributions can be found here.   A cluster monitoring package that works with MOSIX can be found here.


    RPMs for openSUSE

    The distribution consists of the kernel for MOSIX RPM and the corresponding MOSIX-utils RPM.

    Latest RPMs for:
    openSUSE 11.4 32-bit kernel for MOSIX MOSIX-utils
    openSUSE 11.4 64-bit kernel for MOSIX MOSIX-utils

    Other RPMs for openSUSE (some are limited to 6 nodes) can be found here.

    To add the SUSE-MOSIX repository, run:   zypper ar http://www.mosix.org/suse-mosix suse-mosix

    To install, run:   zypper install kernel-mosix mosix-utils


    Virtual Clusters on Linux and Windows

    The latest 64-bit distribution of a pre-installed virtual-disk image, based on VMware server, Debian 4.0 and MOSIX-2.32.0.1 (64-bit), can be used to create a MOSIX virtual cluster on Linux and/or Windows computers.

    Installation instructions are provided here. Older images can be found here.

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