Overview

MOSIX is a management system targeted for high performance computing on Linux clusters and multiclusters. MOSIX incorporates dynamic resource discovery and automatic workload distribution, commonly found on single computers with multiple processors. In a MOSIX system, users can run applications by creating multiple processes, then let MOSIX seek resources and automatically migrate processes among nodes to improve the overall performance, without changing the run-time environment of migrated processes.

MOSIX is implemented as a software layer that provides applications with an unmodified Linux run-time environment. Users do not need to modify or link applications with any library, login to remote nodes or even copy files to remote nodes.

MOSIX Version 1 was originally developed to manage a single cluster. MOSIX Version 2 (MOSIX2) for Linux-2.6 was extended with a comprehensive set of new features that can manage a cluster and a multicluster grid.

For further information see the Latest release and changelog, the MOSIX2 white paper, our CCGrid papers, the Overview of MOSIX2 presentation, the MOSIX2 Tutorial and our organizational grid HUGI.