HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system

Re:HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating... by bogomipz on Saturday August 19, 2017 @10:31AM (#15053558)

>"... the non-web clusters at Google and Facebook to all be spiritual descendants of the original Beowulf cluster."

I was intrigued by this comment. Could you elaborate on this? Are there specific concepts from Beowulf that FB's Tupperware and Google's Borg borrowed?

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Re:HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating... by zrail on Saturday August 19, 2017 @11:37AM (#15053954)

The entirety of the Beowulf concept is a cluster of commodity machines networked together that can work together to perform some kind of task. It's pretty general. The original Beowulf-style clusters ran things like mosix to present a single system image for applications but as far as I can tell that was never a defining characteristic.

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Re:HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating... by bogomipz on Saturday August 19, 2017 @11:43AM (#15053985)

Thanks, yes that's pretty broad, makes sense. Cheers.

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