Editing MOSIX (section)

{{Short description|Distributed operating system}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = MOSIX
| developer              = Amnon Barak<ref name='faq'>{{cite web|url=http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/faq/output/faq_toc.html |title=MOSIX Frequently Asked Questions }}</ref>
| latest release version = 4.4.4<ref name='changelog'>{{cite web|url=http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/txt_changelog.html |title=MOSIX Changelog}}</ref>
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|df=yes|2017|10|24}}
| operating system       = [[Linux]]
| genre                  = [[Cluster (computing)|Cluster software]]
| website                = {{URL|http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/index.html}}
| license                = own<ref name='dist'>{{URL|http://www.mosix.cs.huji.ac.il/txt_distributions.html}}</ref>
}}

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'''MOSIX''' is a proprietary [[distributed operating system]].<ref>The MOSIX distributed operating system: Load balancing for UNIX, volume 672 of [[Lecture Notes in Computer Science]]. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1993</ref> Although early versions were based on older [[UNIX]] systems, since 1999 it focuses on [[Linux]] [[Computer cluster|clusters]] and [[Grid computing|grid]]s. In a MOSIX cluster/grid there is no need to modify or to link applications with any library, to copy files or login to remote nodes, or even to assign processes to different nodes – it is all done automatically, like in an [[Symmetric multiprocessing|SMP]].