Tux wearing `PANTS' PANTS Application Node Transparency System

Major Qualifying Project:

This project has been presented for partial completion of the degree requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. The MQP team consists of Kevin W. Dickson, Charles R. Homic, and S. Bryan Villamin, all in the class of 2000.

Abstract:

PANTS is the PANTS Application Node Transparency System. It provides automatic and transparent load sharing on a Beowulf cluster of Linux computers. PANTS manages the resources of the cluster and executes processes remotely to share the computational load among the individual nodes. Even multiprocess applications not designed for a cluster can gain improved performance. This is achieved with a daemon running on each node and PREX, PANTS remote execute, intercepting and remotely executing initiated processes.

Files:

MQP Report on PANTS: pants.html (html) or pants.ps (postscript) or pants.pdf (PDF)
Extreme Linux Abstract
for the Atlanta Linux Showcase: 		als.html (html) or als.ps (postscript) or als.pdf (PDF)
Source code: browse or pants.tgz (gzip tar file)
Project Presentation
Day Slides: 		DaShortShow.ppt (PowerPoint)
Corporate Presentation
Slides: 		DaShow.ppt (PowerPoint)
Kevin Dickson (kdickson@wpi.edu)
Chuck Homic (homic@wpi.edu)
S. Bryan Villamin (sigmund@wpi.edu)
Tuesday, May 2, 2000