Parallel Operating Systems Information request

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2 total messages Started by Al Schuilenburg Tue, 26 Feb 1991 15:13

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Author: Al Schuilenburg
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 1991 15:13

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A while ago (June '90) there was an article which appeared here which 
contained a list of known Distributed/Parallel Operating Systems 
(Commercial and Academic) with a crude description of each and a contact 
person/company for each.  What I would like to know is has anyone kept
this list up to date, and if so could you please mail me a copy.

More importantly, could anyone please give me contact addresses of
people, companies and universities doing R&D work on any of the following ?
  Mach,       Amoeba,    Topaz,     MPX,       QIX,          Peace,     
  Trollius,   Helios,    Chorus,    Plan-9,    TransIDRIS

The reason for all this is that I am trying to do an article on the current
trends of Parallel Operating systems on shared and distributed memory
multi-processor machines.  I am interested in what standards are appearing,
architectural compatability, scaleabilty (# of processors -limit?), 
efficiency etc etc.  Anyone who has that sort of information, please
let me know and if possible email me what you can.  Once complete I will
post the article on the trends back here for your collective info.

Thanks
Alex Schuilenburg
al@perisl.uucp

re: Parallel Operating Systems Information request

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Author: Tim Kindberg
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 12:55

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>A while ago (June '90) there was an article which appeared here which 
>contained a list of known Distributed/Parallel Operating Systems 
>(Commercial and Academic) with a crude description of each and a contact 
>person/company for each.  What I would like to know is has anyone kept
>this list up to date, and if so could you please mail me a copy.
>
>More importantly, could anyone please give me contact addresses of
>people, companies and universities doing R&D work on any of the following ?
>  Mach,       Amoeba,    Topaz,     MPX,       QIX,          Peace,     
>  Trollius,   Helios,    Chorus,    Plan-9,    TransIDRIS
>
I would like to add Equus to this list, developed originally at the Polytechnic
of Central London, and now based as a project at the Centre for Parallel
Computing, here at QMW.

It is aimed primarily at supporting reconfigurable distributed & parallel
computations, and in particular reconfigurable multiple-process servers.

It includes process migration, and constructs for reconfiguring communications
connections.

It has been implemented on a 12 * 68030 system, which includes a UNIX node.

References: 
"Equus: A Parallel Operating System", D. Pountain, Byte, Sep. 89, 
pp 80IS-3 - 80IS-8.
"Horsebox", A. Sherman, T.Kindberg, Parallelogram, no. 14, May 89, pp 18-19.



Tim Kindberg

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