The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
The grid: blueprint for a new computing infrastructure
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Central System Administration in a Heterogeneous Unix Environment: GeNUAdmin
LISA '94 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on System administration
Config: A Mechanism for Installing and Tracking System Configurations
LISA '94 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on System administration
Towards a High-Level Machine Configuration System
LISA '94 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on System administration
An Analysis of UNIX System Configuration
LISA '97 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on System administration
A Configuration Distribution System for Heterogeneous Networks
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on System administration
Bootstrapping an Infrastructure
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on System administration
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th USENIX conference on System administration
The Arusha Project: A Framework for Collaborative UNIX System Administration
LISA '01 Proceedings of the 15th USENIX conference on System administration
Making collaborative system administration easier: constraints and declarative aspect precedence
SAICSIT '04 Proceedings of the 2004 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries
Radmind: The Integration of Filesystem Integrity Checking with Filesystem Management
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
Seeking Closure in an Open World: A Behavioral Agent Approach to Configuration Management
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
SmartFrog Meets LCFG: Autonomous Reconfiguration with Central Policy Control
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
Splat: A Network Switch/Port Configuration Management Tool
LISA '03 Proceedings of the 17th USENIX conference on System administration
Experience in Implementing an HTTP Service Closure
LISA '04 Proceedings of the 18th USENIX conference on System administration
Devolved management of distributed infrastructures with Quattor
LISA'08 Proceedings of the 22nd conference on Large installation system administration conference
Integrating Xen with the Quattor fabric management system
Euro-Par'07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Parallel processing
Federated access control and workflow enforcement in systems configuration
LISA'09 Proceedings of the 23rd conference on Large installation system administration
SimSaaS: simulation software-as-a-service
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Simulation Symposium
A framework for managing large scale computing fabrics and its computational complexity
PPAM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics
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The computational requirements for the new Large Hadron Collider are enormous: 5-8 PetaBytes of data generated annually with analysis requiring 10 more PetaBytes of disk storage and the equivalent of 200,000 of today's fastest PC processors. This will be a very large and complex computing system, with about two thirds of the computing capacity installed in "regional computing centres" across Europe, America, and Asia.Implemented as a global computational grid, the goal of integrating the large geographically distributed computing fabrics presents challenges in many areas, including: distributed scientific applications; computational grid middleware, automated computer system management; high performance networking; object database management; security; global grid operations.This paper describes our approach to one of these challenges: the configuration management of a large number of machines, be they nodes in large clusters or desktops in large organizations.