Mosix Clusters can become an awesome tool for creating Compute Clusters.

1. MOSIX Cluster
By :
Abhay Nitin Pai (13MCC1032)

2. Introduction
● Cluster
– A computer cluster consists of a set of
loosely connected or tightly connected
computers that work together so that in
many respects they can be viewed as a
single system.

4. Data Intensive and Compute Intensive
● Data Intensive
– Data-intensive computing is a class of parallel computing applications
which use a data parallel approach to processing large volumes of data
typically terabytes or petabytes in size and typically referred to as big
data.
● Compute Intensive
– Compute-Intensive is a class of parallel computing applications where the
need for processing power is huge. Some applications without the use of
clusters may take years on a single core personal computer to get the
results.

5. What is the need for cluster ?
● To perform compute-intensive operations
● Also if nodes in the clusters are used with Data-Intensive
environment like Hadoop, an optimal level of server usage can
be achived.
● Clusters also can be used to serve compute services in the
cloud
– Ex: Installing Compute Services(Nova for openstack) on the cluster

6. Using Mosix Cluster in Virtual Environment
● Download the VMDK file
– http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/mos2/mos2vm/VMOSIX-2.32.0.1-
x86_64.vmdk.bz2
● Extract the file
● Make the needful number of copies for the cluster
● Change uuid for each VMDK file
– VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid <file_path>
● Create new VM
● Use VMDK file as SCSi storage

7. ● Start VMs
● Select one particular VM and form a cluster using
# cluster
● The cluster command will automatically detect all the nodes in
the network and send the respective configuration to each
system
● Any cluster application can be used with the help of mosrun
command

8. List of Commands
● Basic commands
– mosrun
– mosps
– mosmon
– mosmigrate
– moskillall