Scale and performance in a distributed file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Measuring thin-client performance using slow-motion benchmarking
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
Computer
THINC: a virtual display architecture for thin-client computing
Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
A clean slate 4D approach to network control and management
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Kerberos: an authentication service for computer networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
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With the rapid advances in hardware and networks, the current computing systems, including desktop or embedded system for end users and routers for professional operators, is becoming more and more complex and unmanageable. Autonomic computing [6] proposed by IBM is to design computing systems that can manage themselves to reduce managing complexity of the global systems. This paper introduces Trans-Com, a novel system to eliminate most of machine individual management. It decouples software and data from the underlying hardware by virtualizing and streaming the storage, centralizing software and data at servers while leveraging local machines' CPU and memory resources to accomplish computing tasks. We have implemented such a pilot system that can support Windows and Linux desktop platforms. In this paper, we focus on the scheme that is used to centralize the software and data. We also presented our early experience in e-learning classrooms to demonstrate that its feasibility, efficiency and usable.