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[Discuss] Whence distributed operating systems?
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- From: darose at darose.net (David Rosenstrauch)
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:32:28 -0400
- In-reply-to: <chxmvomx6h4.fsf@iceland.freeshell.org>
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On 04/21/2016 12:38 PM, Mike Small wrote: > David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> writes: > >> On 04/21/2016 12:50 AM, Mike Small wrote: >>> "Sadly it seems that we now need to either wait for Linux or Windows to >>> catch up with the 1980s state of the art in distributed systems (think >>> Locus or AFS). What went wrong? Products like DataSynapse?s FabricServer >>> look like an interesting attempt to address the problem, at least for >>> the Java world, but it feels to me that mainstream operating systems >>> designers seem to have lost the plot somewhere along the way." >>> >>> http://discovery.bmc.com/community/blog-post/whatever-happened-to-distributed-operating-systems3/ >>> >>> Is single system image still a thing? >> >> Aren't systems like Apache Mesos (which didn't exist back nearly 10 >> years ago in 2007 when the author wrote that post) the natural successor >> to DataSynapse FabricServer, and an example of the "distibuted operating >> system" he's talking about? I.e., just a big pool of CPU cores, where >> different portions of the pool can be utilized for different types of >> distributed workloads. > > Sounds more like what he's talking about. Are these kinds of systems > gaining much traction? I'd never heard of Mesos. Yes, I think so. Many companies are starting to migrate their Hadoop/Spark/etc. infrastructure on to it. (We're starting to do that here at YP.) It makes sense: if you're using Hadoop, Spark, and other distributed systems, it doesn't take long to figure out it's more efficient to have that a system that can run any of those on the same cluster simultaneously. Mesos came out of the same Berkeley Lab that built Spark. More info on its history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Mesos DR
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