SUNMOS

SUNMOS

SUNMOS (Sandia/UNM Operating System) is an operating system jointly developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the Computer Science Department at the University of New Mexico. The goal of the project, started in 1991, is to develop a highly portable, yet efficient, operating system for massively parallel-distributed memory systems. [cite paper | url=http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/update/479476 | title=SUNMOS? | accessdate=2006-05-19 | author=Rolf Riesen, Lee Ann Fisk, "et al."—a paper that explains what SUNMOS is (CiteSeer cached copy)]

SUNMOS uses a single-tasking kernel and does not provide demand paging. It takes control of all nodes in the distributed system. Once an application is loaded and running, it can manage all the available memory on a node and use the full resources provided by the hardware. Applications are started and controlled from a process called "yod" that runs on the host node. Yod runs on a Sun frontend for the nCUBE 2, and on a service node on the Intel Paragon.

References

External links

* [ftp://ftp.cs.sandia.gov/pub/sunmos/ SUNMOS FTP site]
* [http://www.swcp.com/~mccurley/humor/sunmos_humor.html A humorous field guide to differences between SUNMOS and OSF]


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