smadi@uunet.uu.net (Smadi Paradise) (05/01/89)
MOS is a distributed UN*X I had the opportunity to work on. It is probably the first system providing dynamic load balancing by process migration. MOS is scalable to very large installations (hundreds of machines). Adding more machines introduces little or no overhead to kernel mechanisms. To obtain this scalability, MOS uses probabilistic algorithms. Additional information and a list of newer papers is available from Prof. Amnon Barak of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (amnon@humus.huji.ac.il). On (a guest of uunet!rlgvax!smadi) Paradise %A Amnon Barak %A Ami Litman %T MOS: A Multicomputer Distributed Operating System %J Software Practice & Experience %V 15 %N 8 %P 725-737 %D Aug. 1985 %A Amnon Barak %A Amnon Shiloh %T A Distributed Load-balancing Policy for a Multicomputer %J Software Practice & Experience %V 15 %N 9 %P 901-913 %D Sept. 1985 %A Amnon Barak %A On G. Paradise %T MOS \(em Scaling Up UNIX %B Proc. of the Usenix Conf. %P 414-418 %D Summer 1986 %C Atlanta, Ga. %A Amnon Barak %A On G. Paradise %T MOS \(em A Distributed UNIX %B Proc. first AMIX Conf. %P 14-20 %C Tel-Aviv %D June 1986 %T MOS \(em A Load Balancing UNIX %A Amnon Barak %A On G. Paradise %B Proc. EUUG Workshop on Dist. Systems %C Manchester, England %D Sept. 1986 # unpublished %T The Goals and Architecture of the MOSES Distributed Operating System %A Amnon Barak %A Ami Litman %R Report No. DCL-TR-83-07 %D Jan. 1983 %I The Hebrew University %C Jerusalem %T A Distributed Load Sharing Policy to Minimize the Average Response Time %A Amnon Barak %A Amnon Shiloh %D April 1983 %R Report No. DCL-TR-83-12 %I The Hebrew University %C Jerusalem %K balancing %T Load Sharing in a Distributed Operating System %A Amnon Shiloh %R M. Sc. Thesis %D July 1983 %I The Hebrew University %C Jerusalem %K balancing %T The MOS Filing System %A Jonathan Masel %R M. Sc. Thesis, Report No. DCL-TR-83-22 %D Aug. 1983 %I The Hebrew University %C Jerusalem %k file %T The MOS Communication System %A Robert Hofner %R M. Sc. Thesis, Report No. DCL-TR-83-21 %D Feb. 1984 %I The Hebrew University %C Jerusalem %K Scall funnel %A Amnon Barak %A Zvi Drezner %T A Probabilistic Algorithm for Scattering Information in a Multicomputer System %R Report CRL-TR-15-84 %I University of Michigan %C Ann Arbor, Mi. %D March 1984 %T On Disseminating Information Reliably Without Broadcasting %A Noga Alon %A Amnon Barak %A Udi Manber %I The Hebrew University of Jerusalem %C Israel %D April 1986