Kickoff to catalyze community
Seeded 100 machines in 42 sites July 02
- avoid machine configuration issues
- huge set of administrative concerns
Intel Research, Development, and Operations
UCB Rootstock build distribution tools
- boot once from floppy to build local cluster
- periodic and manual update with local modification
UCB Ganglia remote monitoring facility
- aggregate stats from each site, pull into common database
10 Slices (accounts) per site on all machines
- authenticate principal (PIs), delegation of access
- key pairs stored in PL central, PIs control which get pushed out
- PIs map users to slices