3rd International Conference
on SCI-based Technology and Research
Exploiting SCI in the MultiOS management system
Cunniffe, R. and Coghlan, B.A. (Trinity College Dublin)
Technical Session 2: Middleware for SCI based clusters
SCI-Europe 2000, München, Germany (conference stream of Euro-Par 2000)
, August 2000
Abstract:
A cluster management framework is described that takes advantage
of SCI to transfer operating system images to and from cluster
nodes. Users may schedule access to compute nodes via a management
node, and denote the environment to be loaded. They may also take
a snapshot during a session. This mechanism allows a cluster
to be shared among what would otherwise be incompatible research
projects. SCI allows this to be done without excessive overhead.
